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Is anyone self-hosting their own AI? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 18 hours ago by StateMachine@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] thebigsad1@piefed.social 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I have been running a very simple setup but it is more impressive than I ever expected a local model to be.

My PC:

Refurbished 6900XT (16gb vram)

"Cheap" 32GB DDR5 ram

Linux Fedora

Unsloth Desktop. You can connect over cloudfare if you want, or local network, etc

Qwen 3.8 27b GSQ-RCO IQ3_XXS with 65k context @ q8, mmproj not on the GPU, mtp and fa on. I get ~50 t/s max. This is about the maximum this old GPU can handle without unplugging the monitor or slowing down the model too much.

tbh, I've been messing around with it mostly. I have been interested in its coding ability, so I have had it create some code at a few different levels of complexity. Most of these tests were nothing crazy, like a simple harness to connect to unsloth localhost models, and some HTML design tests. I have it building a UFO exploring the solar system type game, it'll be done like a week after qwen4 27b comes out!