Do it yourself: ten guides to building a private AI
Short answer: Ten plain guides to building and running a private AI yourself, from offshore compute and GPU sizing to failover, security and weekly upkeep.
What these guides cover
These ten guides explain the working parts of a private AI that you build and run yourself: the compute, how it is paid for, the GPU, the models, the interface and harness, failover, security, the weekly upkeep and what to do when it breaks.
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The ten guides
- Renting offshore compute: Where private-AI machines get rented, and what to check in a host's terms.
- Paying hosts: crypto, and BTC converted to wires: How hosts get paid, from crypto to the longer chain when a host needs a bank wire.
- Enough GPU: How to size a machine for chat, images and video.
- Choosing and running uncensored models: Where models come from, reading the license and testing on your own prompts.
- Failover when a host shuts you down: A second host, backed-up data, a restore script and a test that proves it works.
- The interface members touch: Chat, history, login and one simple screen for chat, images and video.
- The harness: The loop where the model asks for a tool: routing, tools, memory and confirm-before-send.
- The weekly upkeep: Updates, host bans and price changes, key rotation, backup checks and logs.
- Security and backups: Logins, encrypted keys, HTTPS and backups somewhere you control.
- When it breaks: What fails, in order, and what you do with nobody else on call.
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