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This LLM in a box is powered by a hand crank.

As spotted earlier by The Register, CrankGPT is a concept project from a two-person team at Squeez Labs that runs private, local AI models without needing a power-hungry data center. Instead, you have to literally crank out your own power for each of the chatbot’s answers.

This LLM in a box is powered by a hand crank.

TL;DR

  • CrankGPT is a concept project from Squeez Labs.
  • It allows private, local AI models to run.
  • It does not require a power-hungry data center.
  • Users must generate power by hand-cranking for each answer.