The author discusses building a personal AI computer on a budget, critiquing the tech giants’ approach of throwing money at developing AI tools. They highlight the potential for biased outputs in AI models influenced by those who pay the most. The author shares their journey of building a workstation with 48GB of VRAM for running large language models (LLMs), despite some technical challenges with the hardware. They emphasize the importance of memory and offer cost breakdowns for the components. The author also provides insights on power consumption, fan cooling solutions, and performance benchmarks of various LLMs. Overall, they express satisfaction with the project’s outcome.
https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/building-a-personal-private-ai-computer-on-a-budget/