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Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

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Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#11

I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?

I own vecs.ai and it's surprisingly hard to find buyers. Domains are really just Xoomer NFTs

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#12
post #4

I see this is using GPT4o, any plans for something more sustainable? Would be interesting to see an https://openfreemap.org for LLMs. Perhaps via an RNN like in https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/RWKV-Gradio-2 Or even just leverage huggingface gradio spaces? (most are Gradio apps that expose APIs https://www.gradio.app/guides/view-api-page )

I wonder if a 1B model could be close to free to host. That's an eventuality, but I wonder how long it'll take for that to be real.

I’m planning to deploy a 1B model, feed it all the documents I’ve ever written, host it on a $149 mini-PC in my bedroom, and enable you to chat with it.

I’ve released similar projects before.

I’ll drop a post about my plans in the coming days and I’ll build and document it about two weeks later if there’s enough interest.

joeldare.com

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#13

I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?

They paid about $50k for ch.at. I have a single letter country code domain (3 characters total, x.xx). There are still some single letter country code domains available to register, you could get one for under $1k USD if you want one.

Here’s a reseller with a variety: https://1-single-letter-domains.com/

These guys run a bunch of services on x.xx domains: https://o.ee/services/ like c.im, r.nf, p.lu.

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#14

I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?

unless they are .com, nobody cares.

.ai expensive these days too

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#15
post #9

It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?

This is because when an account generates text in a chatroom it is generally referred to as a "bot".

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#17

What are the economics of this?

This (or something very similar) was on X last week. The use case was so funny: using an LLM on an airplane connected to WiFi when you had not paid for WiFi … because DNS queries are allowed before paying :)

Re: Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

#20

been using it on a plane for the past one month. it's a great way to do some light reading and learning about obscure topics. dig @ch.at "why is gua musang the king of durian" TXT +short

This is the killer use case. Thanks!
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