Running a Personal AI Assistant for $0 - Part 1 - Architecture

Short summary

Build a personal AI assistant on free infrastructure—Oracle Cloud's always-free ARM server, local models via Ollama, and Google's free Gemini API—instead of paying monthly subscriptions. The system handles summarization, drafting, web search, and file operations, with Gemini catching complex tasks locally. Trade-offs: slower local inference and lower quality than Claude/GPT-4, but runs on your terms forever at zero cost.

• •Use Oracle's Always Free tier (4 ARM cores, 24GB RAM) + Ollama to run open models locally
• •Google Gemini API free tier (1K requests/day) as fallback for complex tasks
• •Supports Telegram, web search, file ops, GitHub integration—zero cost at the cost of speed

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