Introduction

Part 5 of the Zero Dollar AI Assistant series - Your Personal AI Assistant via Telegram — Always On. Part 1 covers the architecture. Part 2 covers Oracle Cloud setup. Part 3 covers Ollama and model selection. Part 4 covers installing openclaw on Linux

If you've followed the series to this point, you have:

An Oracle ARM server running 24/7 at zero cost - Part 2

Ollama with llama3.2:3b as your local model & Gemini 2.5 Flash as a free fallback - Part 3