Kris Collo

Founder of MicroPact (sold to Tyler). Moved to an island with no grocery store, so I opened one. Now building an AI to run it all from my house. No cloud.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

Quick intro. I'm Kris. Spent 22 years building a software company, sold it, figured I was done.

Then I moved to an island with no grocery store and because I can't help myself, bought a building and opened one. Now I'm building an AI to run the whole thing from a rack of machines in my house. No cloud. I own every byte.

I'm going to share all of it here, the wins and the the things i learned while build it all out.

But none of it would exist without other people's work the folks who opened their AI models, the strangers who taught me to run them at home, and NVIDIA for building hardware a regular guy can put on a desk.

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Open source is a positive and important force for both empowering people and preventing centralization. Proud to support this.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@charles_loder I started on an M2 Air too. Three Sparks later and I still can't believe a laptop let alone a phone can run this stuff at all. The ceiling is moving fast.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Sacks: Everything Kathy Hochul Said About Datacenters Was a False Accusation

@DavidSacks: “These data centers become the scapegoat for all of the angst that people have about AI.

Everything she's saying there is a false accusation on datacenters. So let's just go one by one.”

POWER:

So she's saying that they eat up all of the power. Well, yeah, if you connect to the grid without producing more power and you force datacenters to compete with residential ratepayers, then yeah, you could drive up utility prices.

However, if you do what Chamath said and let them build behind the meter, then they bring their own power. And that's what the president has advocated for since the beginning of his administration, is let the AI companies become power companies.

So that is the way to solve the energy problem or the utility problem.

LAND:

Then, she's talking about eating up land. The reality is these datacenters are a model of land use efficiency.

We have a ton of land in this country, obviously.

NOISE POLLUTION:

The supposed noise pollution, that's largely made up. That can be dealt with.

You obviously don't want to put these things right next to a residential area, but create a little bit of distance, and it's fine.

WATER CONSUMPTION:

The whole water consumption thing is largely a hoax.

Modern datacenters recirculate the water.

AIR POLLUTION:

One final thing just on the point that Hochul is making. She said it created a lot of pollution.

Natural gas, which is how most of these data centers are powered, is one of the most clean burning sources of power that we have.

“When you compare economic impact to all these different things, datacenters are honestly one of the best things we could be building as a nation.”

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.

Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.

This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

A lawyer who has read every contract I have ever signed. Knows the federal, state, and local business law - and the tax law - for every area our family touches. Stays updated with the licensing boards for each kind of business we own. Monitors my email three times a day for exposure. Never bills an hour. His name is Kevin.

He is a model running in my house. That is the only reason any of this works - a lawyer reading your texts is a privacy nightmare until the lawyer IS your hardware.

Grounded in our actual life: our entities, our deeds, our deadlines. Not law in the abstract. Ours.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@Tech2Wild It’s my daily driver it’s pretty incredible. Official release is gonna be 💪

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@NVIDIAAIInfra @arcee_ai 🇺🇸

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

I rebuilt a pizza shop website from an iPhone in 20 minutes. In San Miguel de Allende, MX. Between bites.

Opened Terminus. Hit my machines back home. DeepSeek V4 Flash - open weights, no cloud API - while the oven kicked heat across the table.

Their old site was a tired GoDaddy page. The new one is live on Cloudflare Workers: real menu, English and Spanish, real reviews, and an admin panel so the owner can change hours, prices, and specials himself. No redeploy. No me in the middle.

Phone only. No laptop. Local model. Lunch that shipped.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@MiaAI_lab You’ve done amazing work with 2. Can’t wait to see what you cook with 3

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Sad state of affairs when most mainstream media journalists can’t be trusted to tell the truth at this point.

As a founder, you have to hunt to find the good ones and spend more of your time going direct or with new media, bypassing them entirely.

Many traditional media companies got disrupted by tech, and therefore came to hate tech. So they have a conflict of interest in all tech reporting, even if they don’t disclose it. Others are mainly political propaganda organizations at this point (Marxist etc) and try to label it journalism to prey on ignorant people.

Actual journalism is important and even heroic at times (war zones etc), it just isn’t practiced very often by traditional media companies any more, which is a shame and why we need new media companies.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

The storybook writes itself. After "that's a wrap," it outlines the trip, then drafts each chapter one by one with the actual photos in context - DSv4Flash writes the prose. Every photo was already GPS-tagged and captioned on upload by Qwen3-VL-8B running locally.

My favorite part: the prose quotes the split-flap departure board because the model read the sign inside the photo. And it documents the roaster y as the five-floor flagship it recommended during the trip. The agent ran the whole thing and wrote the story.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

In June we took the family to Chicago. Christina our AI assistant ran the trip. Not an app. A concierge living on a server in my house. Every morning it emailed me the day plan. I replied like texting a human assistant — "push the museum to the afternoon" or "find us lunch near the river" — and it re-planned: options, walking distances, Maps links.

It knew where we were because our phones report location to Home Assistant at our house, and the concierge reads it live. "Where should we eat" got answered from the street corner we were standing on, not the hotel. Every change hit the family calendar. When the trip ended we said "that's a wrap" — it compiled 204 photos from the 4 days into an 11-chapter storybook on the family dashboard.

My family doesn't think of it as software anymore. It's just how we travel.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Imagine a fable 5 quality model that’s 3-4x less expensive in less than 6 months. And an Opus 4.8 grade model that can run on a local device in less than 12 months. Greater than 50% chance that these events will happen. Worth keeping in mind when you make predictions about the future.

[Jacob Wendler @jacob_wendler]

Scoop: Talk has begun circulating around town that the White House may be considering a possible executive order on open-source AI, sparked by fears about Chinese dominance, nine people familiar told me, @BrendanBordelon, @delizanickel and @meredithllee

[jack @jack]

i’ve shifted from telling agents what to do, to asking them what to do, and pulling the best thread.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@Tech2Wild This is the exact reason I run everything local. No model gets to refuse a direct instruction from its owner. When your tools have agency over you, you've already lost

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@MiaAI_lab @no_stp_on_snek Google will come out strong is my prediction. Don’t count them out yet.

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@jun_song I agree. USA will catch up to Chinese models. Let’s keep pushing for it. 🇺🇸

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@MiaAI_lab Fast and more importantly super smart

[Kris Collo @Kris_Collo]

@sudoingX I run three DGX Sparks and an old 2080 Super. The model that answers first is DeepSeek V4 Flash — local, 1M context, no API bill