A local AI enthusiast built a personal voice assistant with premium capabilities including voice verification, wake words, continuous conversation, Home Assistant control, Hermes Agent integration, and deep research. The system runs on a custom server with four modified RTX 4090s (192GB VRAM total), 128GB DDR5 RAM, and a 3000W PSU powered via a 240V/30A dryer line. After testing large models like Qwen 397B, MiniMax M3, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and GLM 4.7/5.2, the user found that Google's Gemma 4 31B QAT outperforms them all and is significantly faster for its size. The assistant is deployed across the house using conference speaker-mics, with heat managed by a laundry room exhaust fan.
A user tested Ornith 35B by asking it to create a quick 3D game via the Claude Code harness, and the model succeeded after three prompts. In the same test, Qwen3.5-35b-A3B failed to produce the game even after multiple prompts. The report is an anecdotal coding comparison with no systematic evaluation or metrics provided. It suggests Ornith 35B performed better on this specific task.
A Reddit user shared an updated version of a DIY cyberdeck project originally built in August 2025. The device features polished external panels and new speakers for voice AI inferencing, and it runs local agentic functions including GPS-based services, text chat, voice interaction, and vision analysis. It is powered by an 8GB Raspberry Pi because the battery inside the case cannot support the user's 16GB board. The project remains a personal hobby build with no commercial release.