Running your own local AI: owning it instead of renting it from the giants.
A hands-on, even-handed look at Odysseus, PewDiePie’s open-source AI workspace: the genuinely impressive feature set, the short Docker setup, and an honest read on who it’s for (and who’s better off with something simpler). Part 4 of Own Your AI.
A genuine beginner’s guide to running an AI model on your own computer: install Ollama, one line to download a model, an optional chat window, honest hardware expectations, and what local AI is (and isn’t) good at. Part 3 of Own Your AI.
Five clear-eyed reasons to reduce your dependence on the AI giants, price, privacy, deprecation, outages and lock-in, plus the honest counter-case the self-host crowd skips. Part 2 of the Own Your AI series.
PewDiePie released a free, open-source AI workspace called Odysseus, and with it, a big idea: own your AI instead of renting it. Part 1 of our Own Your AI series makes the honest case, no doom required.