Private AI at Home: Secure, Open-Source, and Fully Yours

A presentation at DevOps Days Chicago 2025 in March 2025 in Chicago, IL, USA by Paul Czarkowski

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Private AI at Home Secure, OpenSource And Fully Yours Paul Czarkowski DevOpsDays Chicago 2025 [jarvis]

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3 Who am I ? Paul Czarkowski Senior Principal Cloud Services Black Belt Red Hat [Jarvis] Technologist | DevOp | SysAdmin | BBQ Enthusiast

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What is Generative AI ?

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(Multidimensional Vector Database) [napkin.ai]

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[napkin.ai]

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[napkin.ai]

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Proprietary LLMs

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$$$$$$ $$$$$$ [chatgpt]

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The AI Broligarchy

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Google / Facebook / Twitter / etc [napkin.ai]

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The platform you see The actual platform [napkin.ai]

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[chatgpt]

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[napkin.ai]

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Generative AI [jarvis]

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[chatgpt]

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[chatgpt] [jarvis]

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Open Source GenAI [jarvis]

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[jarvis]

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OSS* LLMs

  • claims of OSS may be exaggerated

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Hardware [jarvis]

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Hardware

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Hardware CPU Intel AMD RPi GPU Nvidia AMD [jarvis] Unified Memory M-series Mac

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Start with what you have… [jarvis]

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Gaming PCs [jarvis]

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Old DataCenter GPUs https://www.overclock.net/threads/g aming-on-a-tesla-m40-gtx-titan-x-p erformance-for-a-third-the-price.177 7611/ https://ingoeichhorst.medium.com/b uilding-a-wall-mounted-and-wallet-fr iendly-ml-rig-0683a7094704

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Breaking news! https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-4090-with-96gb-vram-reportedly-exists/

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Macs [jarvis]

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Breaking News https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-unveils-new-mac-studio-the-most-powerful-mac-ever/

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Operating System ? [jarvis]

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Bazzite [jarvis] https://bazzite.gg/

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Local AI stack [jarvis]

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Local AI Architecture Diagram https://github.com/coleam00/local-ai-packaged

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Open WebUI

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Open WebUI

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Open WebUI

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Stable Diffusion + SwarmUI

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WAN 2.1 + SwarmUI

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Jarvis > an epic movie poster showing a strong woman standing victoriously on a battlefield littered with broken robots a american flag can be seen waving in the wind in the background. She is holding up a robot head in her hand and is making a peace sign with her other hand.

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Writing Code Assistant “Vibe Coding”

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Writing Code with Roo Code

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Discuss and Edit Code with Continue.dev

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Voice Assistant [jarvis]

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Voice Assistant

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Other Things… No/Low Code Agentic Talk to your notes… CLI Magic

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Conclusion

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THANKS! [jarvis] https://tech.paulcz.net/local-ai/