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.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Lemonade is pretty good, especially for AMD GPUs and the lazy, but it’s pretty opinionated (like ollama but not as toxic) and it’s not easy to directly control llama-server parameters. It feels a bit commercial / we want to IPO.

    Seeing as you already have your parameters, llama-swap might be a better fit, lets you configure llama-server directly in a yaml, and switch between them. You can even have multiple versions of the same model (e.g. thinking or not, try out different parameters) and change without reloading.

    Both work fine with e.g. Open WebUI and Pi (lemonade its own integration and llama-server needs an extension).