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.
Last night I managed to run Qwen Flash Next iq2 XS using Strata in docker on a VM
I passed through my 3090, 64GB of DDR4, 12 vcores of my 5960x,
Managed 90t/s
I’ll probably try a larger version soon but QFN already seems a lot more capable than 3.6 35b A3B, and runs better than Qwen 3.8 dense in llama.cpp