I wanted to run my own AI. My laptop says not yet
My laptop says not yet June 29, 2026 ·5 min read The pitch sells itself. An assistant that's entirely mine, running on my own machine, needing no connection, with nothing I type ever leaving the room. No outage on someone else's servers wrecking my afternoon (I'm looking at you, Anthropic, and your recurring outages).
- ▪My laptop says not yet June 29, 2026 ·5 min read The pitch sells itself.
- ▪An assistant that's entirely mine, running on my own machine, needing no connection, with nothing I type ever leaving the room.
- ▪No outage on someone else's servers wrecking my afternoon (I'm looking at you, Anthropic, and your recurring outages).
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| Original publisher | Márcio Florindo |
| Canonical URL | https://marcioflorindo.com/renting-most-of-my-intelligence.html |
| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:45:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-30T14:07:04.109Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-30T14:07:04.109Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ukCmTysbRdPt · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Back to Blog I wanted to run my own AI. My laptop says not yet June 29, 2026 ·5 min read The pitch sells itself. An assistant that's entirely mine, running on my own machine, needing no connection, with nothing I type ever leaving the room. No company counting my tokens. No subscription. No outage on someone else's servers wrecking my afternoon (I'm looking at you, Anthropic, and your recurring outages). I wanted that badly enough that I spent a few months chasing it, and I want to tell you honestly where it left me. 24GB sounds like plenty until you load a model My Mac has 24GB of memory. This felt generous when I bought it, but then you load a real language model and that number shrinks fast.
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