AI that runs on your own machine.
Cloudless Magic is a newsletter about local AI: the models, tools and stacks you can run, understand and control yourself. No subscription lock-in, no data leaving the house.
What you'll get
- Setups that actually work
- Step-by-step builds for running language models, embeddings and search on hardware you already own.
- Honest comparisons
- Which local model is good enough for which job, and where the cloud is still ahead.
- How it works underneath
- Plain explanations of the ideas behind the tools, so you can fix things when they break.
Who writes this
I'm Stefan. I studied physics in Munich, launched one of Germany's first online marketing SaaS in 2002, wrote a web search engine from scratch in 2005 and was using word embeddings back in 2017.
Today I build AI stacks that stay under the user's control. This newsletter is where I share what I learn along the way.