One AI Brain, Many Faces and Voices

One AI Brain, Many Faces and Voices

Our presenter, her news-anchor self, and every character voice in our videos share infrastructure: one local LLM, swappable voices, swappable faces. The architecture that makes characters cheap.

July 9, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Run a Private AI Image Generator on Your Own GPU (ComfyUI Starter)

Run a Private AI Image Generator on Your Own GPU (ComfyUI Starter)

Free, unlimited, private image generation at home — the ComfyUI setup we generate hundreds of images a day on, explained for a first-timer.

July 9, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Use Your Home AI from Anywhere (Without Exposing It to the Internet)

Use Your Home AI from Anywhere (Without Exposing It to the Internet)

Our whole stack — image generation, the LLM brain, everything — is reachable from a phone on the other side of the country, with zero open ports. Tailscale setup in fifteen minutes.

July 9, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Word-Perfect Subtitles for Any Video, Free, with Local Whisper

Word-Perfect Subtitles for Any Video, Free, with Local Whisper

Every caption on our channel — including karaoke-timed lyrics — comes from faster-whisper running locally. Setup, word-level timestamps, and the two tricks that fix the words it always gets wrong.

July 9, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Build a Local Talking AI Avatar: The Complete Architecture

Build a Local Talking AI Avatar: The Complete Architecture

The full blueprint for a fully-local AI companion — speech in, animated talking character out — running on one consumer GPU. This is the map; every stage links to a hands-on guide.

July 1, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Run a 26B AI Brain Locally — Warm, Multimodal, and With Memory

Run a 26B AI Brain Locally — Warm, Multimodal, and With Memory

The brain is the biggest VRAM line-item and the biggest latency trap. How we run a 26B multimodal LLM via Ollama with sub-second warm responses, persistent memory — and free screen vision.

July 1, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Can My PC Run Local AI? — Instant Hardware Check

Can My PC Run Local AI? — Instant Hardware Check

Pick your GPU and RAM, get honest answers: which AI chat models, image generators, voice cloning, talking avatars, video generation, and full AI companions your machine can actually run — from people who run all of it daily.

4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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