Built a local AI assistant because I always knew this day would come, yesterday just made it feel very real

I saw this coming from the start, so I sat down and started building. But yesterday's Anthropic shutdown made it hit different. One government directive and you see what happened. Or its just Anthropic i dont know, but that's the risk of depending on someone else's infrastructure. So here's what I've been working on: Bantz, a fully local AI personal assistant with a 1920s butler persona, running on Gemma 4b: \- Reads & summarizes Gmail by category (personal, institutional, notifications) (well tries at least) \- Google Calendar integration \- Web search + deep research (async, multi-source) (this is good for a 4b parameters model) \- Real-time system monitoring with alerts (CPU/RAM/swap) \- Scheduled tasks & autonomous directives \- Wayland native desktop control (still in progress but at least i can control my pc from far away) \- Runs on CPU only — no GPU required (if youre using llama or the other models well its needed) Optimizing a small local model is an absolute nightmare, but at least it's MY nightmare and no one can take it away- for now. Oh yes, for now this is my nightmare to maintain alone-- if anyone wants to grab a corner and help build, that would be absolutely amazing. Ideas, PRs, feedback, all welcome. Our little model has big ambitions :') [github.com/miclaldogan/bantzv2](http://github.com/miclaldogan/bantzv2) https://preview.redd.it/0snp7rf4497h1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9db195cdba415e79734b5475fe85ca959c8fe63