Ghost: what if your AI lived at home? 🏠🤖

I just discovered Ghost, and I find the concept particularly promising.

Not necessarily because I want to buy their product, but because their vision of personal AI is very close to what I’m trying to build with my digital memory.

The idea is simple:

What if your AI ran directly at your home, rather than on a big company’s computers?

🏠 A computer dedicated to your AI

Ghost offers a device called Core.

It’s essentially a computer designed to run artificial intelligence models and AI agents directly at home.

The goal is to let your assistant:

• consult your documents and notes;
• use the applications you authorize;
• keep a memory of your information;
• carry out certain tasks for you;
• run continuously.

And above all, the AI models and their memory run locally on your device.

🧠 A memory that stays at home

This is probably the aspect that interests me the most.

Today, we entrust a lot of information to various AI services.

With Ghost, the idea is to keep the AI processing and its memory directly on a computer we own.

Imagine being able to ask:

“What had I decided for my project three months ago?”

Your assistant could find the necessary information in your personal environment.

Your memory, your computer, your AI.

🔐 A privacy approach I like

I took the time to read Ghost’s privacy policy.

And several things appeal to me:

• The AI and its memory run directly on your computer.
• Ghost says it does not keep a copy of your conversations and documents.
• You can use your own API keys to access external services.
• You can choose an independent solution to access your computer remotely.
• Ghost says it does not use your personal content to train AI models.

Of course, local doesn’t automatically mean nothing leaves your home.

If your agent needs to communicate with an external service, some information will have to travel over the Internet.

Another interesting point: Ghost can keep memories extracted from your conversations. Deleting a conversation therefore doesn’t necessarily mean all the associated memories disappear.

And its screen capture feature, disabled by default, deserves special attention before you turn it on.

What I like is the ability to better control what stays at home and what I allow to leave.

💰 What about the price?

Ghost lists its Core computer at US$3,499, with no mandatory subscription for local features.

That’s obviously not cheap!

But the concept has some advantages:

• you own your hardware;
• you run your models locally;
• you keep your memory at home;
• you reduce your dependence on cloud services.

Real-world performance, operating costs and the limits of local models still need to be evaluated, though.

🤖 Why does this interest me so much?

For several months now, I’ve been building my own digital memory and a team of specialized AI agents.

My goal is precisely to let different agents work with a single memory that belongs to me.

Ghost pushes this idea in an interesting direction: bringing memory, AI models and agents together in a personal device designed to run all the time.

I don’t know yet whether Ghost will be the product that succeeds in democratizing this approach.

But I strongly believe in the concept.

🍳 The simple version

Today, we mainly use AIs that run on the computers of large companies.

Ghost proposes another approach:

What if your personal AI assistant ran at your home, with a memory that belongs to you?

The product is still young, its price is high and several promises remain to be validated.

But I really like the direction.

I want an AI that works for me, with my memory, without depending entirely on an outside provider.

And Ghost seems to want to go in exactly that direction. 🏠🤖

👉 Discover Ghost