Based on your requirements for a free LLM model that can run on your home equipment, here are a few recommendations:
1. **Hugging Face Models**:
- Various models are available on Hugging Face that might fit your needs. Look for instruction-tuned models like **GPT-2** and its variants. Some are available in sizes up to 1.5B, but there are larger models that you can find.
- Additionally, models like **Flan-T5** offer a good mix of


