Understanding AI · Lecture six
Can You Build
AI at Home?
MOHAMED MASLOOH · 28 OCTOBER 2026
The program you asked about
A free Word, PowerPoint and Excel
by Brandon Thomas · ArtCraft
WordCraft
DeckCraft
GridCraft
Screens and icons: github.com/storytold (WordCraft, DeckCraft, GridCraft READMEs, Apache-2.0); The Register, “Rust upstart reveals ‘reimplementation’ of Microsoft Office, with Claude on coding duty”, 8 Oct 2026
The program you asked about
Software is cheap now
BeforeA company and years
NowOne person and Claude
Download themgetartcraft.com/downloadScan with your phone camera
ArtCraft13apps
Word
Grid
Deck
Photo
Light
Vector
Design
Fig
Film
Effect
Sound
Pdf
Cad
App list and icons: github.com/storytold, 13 app repositories (WordCraft ... CadCraft); downloads getartcraft.com/apps, checked 27 Oct 2026
The real question
So what is still hard?
ChatGPT?
ClaudeIf software is easy, why can't we make another ChatGPT or Claude?
What is Claude, really?
What did you download?
Claude for Windows
No intelligence inside
Size: Claude for Windows 3.6556.2.0 on my PC, 693 MB installed (measured 27 Oct 2026); Claude Help Center, “Get started with Claude Cowork”
What is Claude, really?
The app is only a window
Your words travel
over the internet
over the internet
Write a short thank-you note
Claude
Good evening
Write a short thank-you note
Thank you so much for your help this week.
It made a real difference, and I’m grateful.
Write a short thank-you noteHow can I help you today?
+Claude
Your device: the window
Claude Help Center, “Get started with Claude Cowork”: Claude’s work runs on Anthropic’s servers; an internet connection is required
What is Claude, really?
The brain lives on their servers
Never given away
The brain runs on
Anthropic’s servers
Anthropic’s servers
They will never give it away
Claude Help Center, “Get started with Claude Cowork”: “Claude’s work runs on Anthropic’s servers”
What the brain is made of
Data + Hardware = AI
~36 trilliontokens (pieces of words) to train Qwen3
16,000 GPUsat once to train Llama 3
Anthropic bought millions of print books, cut off the bindings, scanned them and discarded the paper.
US court ruling, Bartz v. Anthropic, June 2025
Qwen, “Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster” (36T tokens); Meta, “Introducing Meta Llama 3” (16K GPUs); Authors Alliance, on the Bartz v. Anthropic order, 24 Jun 2025
Three ways
Can you build AI at home?
1Build a brain from scratch
Very hardData + hardware you don’t have
2Download a ready brain
Qwen 3.8 Alibaba
DeepSeek V4.1
Gemma 4 Google
gpt-oss OpenAIAll free to download I run some on my own PC
3Teach a ready brain your own data
Anismy own exampleHugging Face model pages: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, deepseek-ai (V4.1), google/gemma-4, openai/gpt-oss-120b; checked 27 Oct 2026
My own example
Anis
Speak, and it types
- Made for Arabic and Egyptian
- Transcribes on your device
- Recordings stay on your device
- Free, no subscription
9:41
أنيس
الأحد 8:15 م
فكّرني أعمل update للـ app، وآخد backup للصور قبل ما أعمل reset للموبايل…
اضغط على أنيس وتحدّث
استيراد ملف
أنيسالسجلّالإعدادات
9:42
أستمع إليك0:00
بص، أنا النهارده عندي meeting الساعة عشرة، وبعدها لازم أخلّص الـ presentation وأبعتها على الـ email قبل الـ deadline
إلغاء
اضغط عليّ عندما تنتهي
9:43
تم النسخ0:10
بص، أنا النهارده عندي meeting الساعة عشرة.
وبعدها لازم أخلّص الـ presentation وأبعتها على الـ email قبل الـ deadline.
جديد
أنيسالسجلّالإعدادات
Anis for Android, app screens (redrawn from the app); anis.maslooh.com
My own example
Quality beats quantity
~29%passed
Telegram lectures collected1,031 h
~29% passed the quality check
~71% did not pass
An old rule of computing
Garbage in,
garbage out.
My training records: Telegram lecture packs collected and quality-gated
Take-home
What this means for you
Software: anyone can build it now
AI models: need data and hardware
Your data: what nobody else has
The answer
Can you build AI at home?
From scratch? Not yet
Teach it with your data? Yes