Hey community! A few months ago I was paying for ChatGPT Plus every month. Then I thought: why am I sending all my private code, business ideas, and weird midnight thoughts to someone else’s server?
So I built my own setup:
- Ollama running Llama 3.1 70B (or whatever model I feel like that day)
- Open WebUI as the interface
- All running on my desktop with an RTX 4090
Result? It feels exactly like ChatGPT, but:
- 100% private
- No token limits? What token limits?
- Costs me only electricity
- Works even when the internet is down
- I can use uncensored models if I want (no “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t help with that” nonsense)
The best part: Open WebUI keeps getting better every week. Recently they added:
- Voice input (talk to your model!)
- Image generation with Stable Diffusion/Flux built-in
- RAG (you can feed it your own documents and it actually remembers them)
- Plugins and extensions
Honestly, once you go local + Open WebUI, going back to web-based AI feels like using dial-up internet again. Thanks for reading! More awesome blogs are on the way with SightSpeak AI, so stay tuned for what’s next!