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.

  • pech@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    8 days ago

    I’ve been using NixOS/nix containers to host some llama.cpp servers and Hermes Agent. Though I wrote a flake to get Project Maya working so I can serve GLM-5.3-Flash and in legit blown away by how well it works. It’s a fork of strata/llama.cpp that focuses on where the relevant experts are loaded and has a neat dashboard to track their use. https://github.com/mw00/project-maya

    My server is assembled into an openair mining rig with a Tesla P40, RTX 3080, and a few Tesla V100s. All of which I bought used off eBay.

    I purchased my first domain to self host a matrix server that I can access via my phone and I also have tailscale set up so I can ssh into the server via my laptop while traveling