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Coding your own AI in 2023 with fastai

Vincent Will on February 27, 2023

Recently I've started the course Practical Deep Learning for Coders. This course is great and I'd recommend it if you'd like to get deeper into the...
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Samuel Suther

Hey Vincent,
nice article. Thanks for it.
Can you tell a bit about the needed Ressources for an own AI? Is it - from budget perspective - better to use existing services or do self-hosting?

I'm very interested in AI to enrich our SaaS-Onlineshop functionality, so your article give a nice intro in this topic.

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Vincent Will

Hey Samuel, happy you like it :)

Depends on the usage but generally speaking I think self-hosting would be cheaper - but a little more effort.

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Samuel Suther

Does those self hosted "own AI" need much amount of ressources?

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Vincent Will

Depends on the traffic it gets but a standard EC2 or DigitalOcean server should be enough - so I think it doesn't need much resources. I'd recommend to start with a small server and scale up if it gets too slow

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