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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.

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[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

1070ti and some hexacore something cpu that's alright with around 24gb ddr4, I think one of the slower speeds. I also got a faster PC with another llama.cpp instance and I vibe coded a quick and dirty proxy which I can use to switch between the different backends. It's genuinely useful because I got code editors but also my Open-WebUI using it.

Sounds elaborate but generally it's all pretty primitive.

Also fyi long preloading steps because my vram is obv not good enough to hold the full model and kv cache and stuff, generation at about 15t/s tops.

My experience is right now we're at the stage where it's a good assistant but not great for actually taking over bigger tasks completely.

Am looking forward to:

  • experimenting with existing non-uniform quants; I believe those quants are the next step to more bang for your buck on those low-grade consumer rigs
  • hoping for new kinds of quants to come out and be more widely adopted
  • maybe a more universal or consistent harness that is less prone to broken tool-calls etc.
  • better models, specifically a new version for 35b a3b.