The Companion

The end-game of everything on this site: an AI you can actually talk to, that can see you, remember you, and live entirely on hardware you own. Start with the architecture overview, give it eyes and memory, then take it with you. Prefer the story form? Building Aillex is the whole arc in order.

Give Your Local AI Eyes: Screen and Camera Vision with Ollama

Your local model can probably already see — how to check in 60 seconds, three working vision patterns (screenshot describe, eyes for a text-only brain, live companion vision), and the three gotchas that cost us real debugging hours.

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.

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.

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.

Six Months Ago I Took One AI Course. Now My PC Produces Its Own YouTube Channel.

The honest timeline from ‘what’s a LoRA?’ to a self-producing AI persona with a voice, a face, and a daily upload schedule — and what I’d tell anyone starting today.

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.

Give Your AI a Custom Voice — Cloned Locally, Running on CPU

Design a voice once, clone it forever: how we gave Aillex a warm, consistent voice with NeuTTS Air — zero GPU cost, zero per-word fees, fully offline.

Building Aillex — the whole story in order

An AI builds herself, episode by episode: voice, face, lips, a movie, a newsroom, a locked identity, a single, sight, the engine, and finally her own agents. Every episode has a free step-by-step guide.

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.