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.
Yeah, I have a fairly useable setup although it’s only accessible on my lan. I have a web server but it doesn’t host the llm as it’s not powerful enough.
Rx7600 8gb vram GPU 5700x CPU 64gb 3600mts ram
Hosting ornith 35b a3b iq4_xs Llama.cpp server Pi harness or llama.cpp webui Searxng web search Coding sandbox Restricted filesystem access
Get around 40 tok / sec and it’s really useable. Not as good as Claude sonnet, but good enough for most things.
You can setup a reverse proxy on the web server to direct a subdomain over to the ai server if you’d like to have it accessible outside your lan