# Hosted AI's restrictions are why you should run your own AI on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-06
- **Theme:** Local AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-ai/
- **Source:** Building a React App live with AI (Greg Osuri)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:35 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JupQI6jnRs&t=455s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-ai/2024-08-06-hosted-ai-s-restrictions-are-why-you-should-run-yo-5wty/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Hosted AI's restrictions are why you should run your own AI on Akash," Building a React App live with AI (Greg Osuri), 6 Aug 2024, 00:07:35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JupQI6jnRs&t=455s

## Quote — verbatim

> I was using Anthropic earlier and Anthropic shut me out because I hit their rate limits. It's crazy how restrictive hosted AI is — it's one of the reasons why you want to host your own AI on Akash. Hopefully we'll get that out very very soon.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining his Aider setup at the start of the stream; he was integrating Aider with a model running on Akash.