Posted Jun 19, 2026 at 10:08 PM UTCSYoutubeStevie BonifieldThis LLM in a box is powered by a hand crank.As spotted earlier by The Register, CrankGPT is a concept project from a two-person team at Squeez Labs that runs private, local AI models without needing a power-hungry data center. Instead, you have to literally crank out your own power for each of the chatbot’s answers.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Stevie Bonifield
This LLM in a box is powered by a hand crank.
As spotted earlier by The Register, CrankGPT is a concept project from a two-person team at Squeez Labs that runs private, local AI models without needing a power-hungry data center. Instead, you have to literally crank out your own power for each of the chatbot’s answers. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSapdLYpmWY]
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