Cloud AI is wonderfully convenient, right up until you read the bill, or the privacy policy, or watch your legal team read the privacy policy and go quiet.
Sometimes the smart move is to bring the models home: running image and language models on hardware you control, where your data never leaves the building and never auditions for someone else's training set. A practical, hype-free tour of self-hosted generative AI. Which open-weight models are actually worth running, what hardware you genuinely need (versus what the internet insists you need), how to set it up, and when self-hosting is wisdom rather than an elaborate way to make your own life harder.
We generate live and privately, and talk honestly about the trade-offs in cost, speed and quality. You'll leave able to stand up your own private AI lab and argue the cloud-versus-local case with actual numbers.