Warning This tutorial will download an AI model which is around 4Gib. Keep in mind that AI models are performance hungry. Performance on a VM can be poor depending on your host CPU. To get the best performance, use a bare-metal machine. Welcome to the guide on using LocalAI with Kairos and K3s on your nodes! But first, what is LocalAI? LocalAI is a self-hosted, community-driven simple local OpenAI-compatible API written in go.