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wy1346 commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace   instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
andylizf · 7 months ago
This is fantastic work. The focus on a local, sandboxed execution layer is a huge piece of the puzzle for a private AI workspace. The `coderunner` tool looks incredibly useful.

A complementary challenge is the knowledge layer: making the AI aware of your personal data (emails, notes, files) via RAG. As soon as you try this on a large scale, storage becomes a massive bottleneck. A vector database for years of emails can easily exceed 50GB.

(Full disclosure: I'm part of the team at Berkeley that tackled this). We built LEANN, a vector index that cuts storage by ~97% by not storing the embeddings at all. It makes indexing your entire digital life locally actually feasible.

Combining a local execution engine like this with a hyper-efficient knowledge index like LEANN feels like the real path to a true "local Jarvis."

Code: https://github.com/yichuan-w/LEANN Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08051

wy1346 · 7 months ago
This looks incredibly useful for making large-scale local AI truly practical.

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