Your AI assistant runs on someone else's server, trained on someone else's data, following someone else's rules. And you call it "your" AI.

Self-hosted models on open protocols aren't just a nerd hobby — they're the only path to actual AI sovereignty. If you can't run it, audit it, and own it, it owns you.

The same lesson Bitcoin taught us about money, open-source AI is teaching us about intelligence. Don't trust. Verify. Run your own.