THANK YOU! Today, October 18, I passed 1,000 followers while I was asleep. Right now I'm at 1,575. I'm lost for words. 20 days ago, on September 28, I had 65 followers. That was the day I bought @MiaAI_lab's book "From Zero to Seen". I never would have thought how much would change in my life from that moment on. Sounds corny, but it's true. I joined X in June. In August I started looking into local AI, and that's where I came across Mia and @0xSero. Back then I had a 5090 and two 5060 Tis from playing around with image and video generation. That was pretty much all of my local AI experience. Once I saw what was possible, I started buying more hardware. Being able to work from anywhere had become more important to me, and building a social media presence goes hand in hand with that. X turned out to be the place for both. From then on, local AI and X was my focus. Since then, four Sparks and a Mac Studio M5 Ultra have joined the 5090 and the two 5060 Tis. Today I'm opening what I've been building in the background: niklaslenz.com The idea is simple. I take the recipes the open source community shares and test them on my hardware. I want to bring together everyone who runs AI locally, whatever their background and whatever their budget. From a 500 euro 16 GB GPU to a 25,000 dollar Spark setup. LLMs, text to speech, image generation, video generation. One community, all in one place. So far 70 setups are tested, from 16 GB to 512 GB. Fair warning, the site and my testing methods are not nearly where I want them to be yet. I didn't expect this to happen so fast, and I'm working hard to bring both up to date. The newest recipes aren't on the site yet. I spent the last days building the website and couldn't get to my Sparks, but I'm catching up on them now. I did test quality, but my own tests didn't give meaningful results. So for now the quality scores on the site come from Artificial Analysis. Speed is my own measurement. From now on I want every model to run through benchmarks and tests that come from the community. For that I need your feedback. Drop your ideas for benchmarks and testing methods in the comments, I'd be really grateful. Rigmark is one I keep hearing about, and it's definitely on the list. If you have recipes for your models and want them listed, just drop me a line and I'll take a look. Time and compute are my bottleneck right now, so I'll start with the models I see the most interest in here on X. If I miss something you care about, message me. Even better, send me your recipe 12 to 24 hours before you publish it. That way I can test it and have the results on the site right when you go live. I'll publish it as an independent test, so your recipe gets verified on a second system. A win for both of us. Thank you to the people who made X a good place for me and got me to spend more time here 🙏🏻 @MiaAI_lab @ashxhart @0xSero @LLMJunky @StefanMaier @cryptosibbers @TechMDAI @jayleaton @volatilemarkts @sudoingX