Does anyone run their own AI service?
If so,
Which one?
What hardware?
Do you have a way to access it from outside or from a phone?
And, if you’re open to sharing, what do you do with it?
I know AI-enabling hardware is insanely expensive right now, but some of the smaller (<32GB) more efficient models (think deepseek- or qwen-based) don’t absolutely need specialized hardware to run and perform well enough for many purposes.
I am so aware of the absolutely abysmal privacy practices of basically all AI companies that I’m not comfortable using them to help me with web searches and the such, because there’s no way that all this information won’t be going into a profile. This makes me want to have my own “helper” service.
it also doubles as my media ripper. I initially built it specifically for that before AI was even a thing.
I run too many models to count really. everything through CLI because I’m dissatisfied with all the sloppy UIs.
Look at the billionaire flaunting their wealth
in my defense I bought the majority of that in 2024 for around $300.
I was surprised to see it’s currently listed at over $2000.