https://askaillex.com/topics/companion/ Recent content in The Companion on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI Hugo en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/give-your-local-ai-eyes/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/give-your-local-ai-eyes/ 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. https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-assistant-memory/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/ai-assistant-memory/ 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. https://askaillex.com/guides/one-brain-many-faces/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/one-brain-many-faces/ 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. https://askaillex.com/guides/access-home-ai-anywhere-tailscale/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/access-home-ai-anywhere-tailscale/ 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. https://askaillex.com/articles/my-ai-journey-six-months/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/my-ai-journey-six-months/ 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. https://askaillex.com/guides/local-ai-avatar-overview/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/local-ai-avatar-overview/ 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. https://askaillex.com/guides/clone-a-voice-locally-neutts/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/guides/clone-a-voice-locally-neutts/ 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. https://askaillex.com/series/building-aillex/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/series/building-aillex/ 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. https://askaillex.com/can-i-run-it/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/can-i-run-it/ 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.