# AI Under Your Control

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/551/
> Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 551
- Date: 2024-02-25
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Duration: 01:04:24
- Audio: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/020941b7-068d-4897-bffb-c4ddc9a60eaf.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgljdXJsBjoGRVQ%3D--435795d5c850773aaa4739d968bd77a1dfd6f301



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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM")
* [First NixCon North America!](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-first-nixcon-north-america/35874 "First NixCon North America!")
* [Southern California Linux Expo 21](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x "Southern California Linux Expo 21")
* [🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM](https://www.meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/298780542 "🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM")
* [Yard House Menu](https://www.yardhouse.com/menu/starters/apps?setRestaurant=8307&cmpid=br:yh_ag:ie_ch:dry_ca:YHGMB_sn:gmb_gt:pasadena-ca-8307_pl:menu_rd:1006 "Yard House Menu")
* [Fountain.fm](http://fountain.fm/ "Fountain.fm")
* [Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance](https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/google_suspends_gemini/ "Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance") — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts. 
* [Stable Diffusion 3](https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3 "Stable Diffusion 3") — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs. 
* [Deedy on X](https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1760873374174302447 "Deedy on X") — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
* [AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/ai-safety-washington-lobbying-00142783 "AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying")
* [Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/google-goes-open-ai-with-gemma-a-free-open-weights-chatbot-family/ "Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family") — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone." 
* [ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.27 "ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma")
* [gemma.cpp](https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp "gemma.cpp") — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models. 
* [InvokeAI](https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/ "InvokeAI") — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process. 
* [Nixified AI](https://nixified.ai/ "Nixified AI") — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues. 
* [NixOS-WSL](https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL "NixOS-WSL")
* [Texas LinuxFest 2024](https://2024.texaslinuxfest.org/ "Texas LinuxFest 2024")
* [TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link](https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/auslkes-lin-008655fc-a007-41c6-8d04-0d79e5b68ea6/ "TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link")
* [LFNW2024 - Ready or not…](https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ "LFNW2024 - Ready or not…") — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College 
* [LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted](https://lfnw2024.sessionize.com/ "LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted")
* [LINUX Unplugged Membership](http://linuxunplugged.com/membership "LINUX Unplugged Membership")
* [ryantm/agenix](https://github.com/ryantm/agenix "ryantm/agenix") — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager 
* [Mic92/sops-nix](https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix "Mic92/sops-nix") — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops 
* [Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers](https://huggingface.co/papers "Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers")