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I'm a latecomer to the AI game but so far, I've found Grok and Perplexity to be the most useful overall. Grok's LLM is advancing exceptionally fast, but Perplexity's formatting is a lot better to my eyes and the way it sources its results is so much more useful.

At the moment, Grok is probably my most-used AI, but I use Copilot for general queries (mostly tech-related), Perplexity for anything I need deeper research on, and then I fall back on ChatGPT for anything miscellaneous. That said, I use Brave's Leo for quick page summaries.

I also use Venice in the same way I use ChatGPT, but for queries that are slightly less "public friendly". I'm also aiming to test out Proton's Lumo in the near future but when I first tried it, it seemed like it had a little way to go before.

Eventually, once my home lab is set up the way I want it to be, I also plan to experiment with self-hosting my own LLMs because that'd definitely be ideal for privacy purposes, but I'm comfortable using the online options for now for generic queries that aren't really private. #ai #artificialintelligence
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Ape Mithrandir 5mo ago

Local AI is great but never the cheapest option. Home labs get addictive and costly very quickly but I love it.

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Jacob | Five Eye Tea 5mo ago

For sure, that's why I consider it a very long-term project for me hah. As for the home lab, I pretty much have to have one since I'm pivoting into cybersecurity as a level 1 SOC analyst and since I don't have any professional IT experience (partly because I couldn't even land an interview with helpdesk for whatever reason), home lab projects are my only way to really prove any knowledge. Thankfully, most of the hardware has been provided thanks to family and friends who didn't need specific systems, so that's one cost that I was able to cut!