Make Your AI Assistant Remember You Between Conversations

Make Your AI Assistant Remember You Between Conversations

LLMs are goldfish by default. The file-based memory pattern that gives a local assistant identity, user context, and continuity, the same architecture ours runs on.

July 9, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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 · 3 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 local AI companion, speech in, talking face out. Every stage can run on your own hardware; this is the map, and every stage links to a hands-on guide.

July 1, 2026 · 6 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 · 4 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.

7 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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