Transcript
A (0:18)
Hello and welcome. This is Gabriel Custodiet of Watchman Privacy Privacy practitioner, consultant, author and frontline fighter in the push for privacy. I know why you're here. Like the rest of us here in the resistance, you're trying to escape the technocratic apparatuses that you see enveloping you and crushing your freedoms. That's why I created all of this, all without sponsors. I hope you enjoy this show, but then when you're ready to take the next steps to secure your privacy and your future, Visit my website, escapethetechnocracy.com to start the real journey. Your support alone does not determines the future of the show. See you there. Welcome everyone. I'm very pleased today to be joined by Milan Darid and he is the creator, co creator of Nano GPT, which is a very handy AI API service where you can go to the websites nano-GPT.com and you can access hundreds of different AI models, image, video, text, without having to have an account on those places. So that's very useful. You can do it therefore, in a more anonymous way. This is not something we'd be using for our very private queries, but it's a fantastic way to explore a lot of AI models. It has a top up system so you can, you don't have to even have an account with nano GPT. You can just top it up, test it out. They accept privacy cryptocurrencies, so it's a very useful service. And I had a episode previously with Milan explain the service in its entirety. So I would very much recommend you go check that one out. We'll have that in the show notes to get the full sense of things. I thought it was a, I thought it was a very good interview and actually as I was preparing for this one, I thought, oh shoot, like what am I going to talk about in this one? Because we kind of covered so many things. So Anyway, Milan of Nano GPT.com welcome back to the show. How are you doing?
B (2:10)
Thank you. Very happy to be here. Our last chat was, what is it, four or five months ago now, I think.
A (2:16)
Yeah, I think that one was in April. So first, first part of the year for sure. And we discovered the nano GPT. I heard about it from Urban and I'm not sure where he heard about it from, but it's obviously a very useful service for all the reasons we go into in the first episode. And let's kind of get people up to speed though, Milan, and assume that people understand kind of what's going on. And this, this Episode's going to be more kind of getting a little bit into some of the specifics, some of the updates and so maybe you could kick us off. What are some of the main changes, the main updates to Nano GPT since we last talked.
B (2:52)
Yeah, so I think one of the updates, the suggestion might have actually come from you guys. So before we would do an anonymous account and it would just be a cookie that's stored in your browser. And nowadays we use essentially what mill that the VPN also does. So we generate a random UUID essentially and you can use that to also log in from other devices. So it's gotten even more private. So even easier to use it in a private way. There's even less need to make an account because before it would be hard to link your mobile account to your desktop account. And now that's gotten quite easy even being fully anonymous. Another big change has been that we have a subscription now it's fully optional, so we still have the pay as you go service. But essentially feedback we got was that some people prefer to know in advance how much they're spending and then just use essentially unlimited. So what we've managed to do is make a subscription for all of the open source models. Those are also the models on which we can guarantee that there's no logging because if you run through OpenAI Google there's usually going to be logging. But for open source models there are a bunch of no log, no training providers and those are the ones we use. So we feel it aligns quite well with what we're trying to do. So it's $8 a month and then people can access like pretty much every open source model there is and pretty much unlimited. It's 60,000 queries per month. What else have we done? I think in general we've just added tons of models as new ones have come out. But, but that's kind of. We were doing that before as well and we've I would say made it more usable by also adding stuff like conversation sync. So before mobile and desktop, if you logged in from another device it would be totally separate. And nowadays you can choose to either use our storage and we will sort of do the syncing for you and do the storing for you, or you can add in your own storage so you can be fully in control of it yourself. You can just add in your own storage. We don't store anything ourselves, we just use your essentially AWS S3 or some compatible storage. And yeah, we've noticed that many people find that very useful. Because you know, it makes it actually possible to continue conversations from phone to laptop to anywhere you want to use it. I would say those are probably the main changes we've made. We also keep just trying to make it easier to. You mentioned the private coins. So we used to have Monero. Now we also have zcash and we have the Mimble web extension for Litecoin. So it makes it even easier for other users of private coins to deposit with us. So yeah, I would say those have been the main changes.
