Just want to piggyback this. You will probably need more than 6gb vram to run good enough models with a acceptable speed and coherent output, but the more the better.

Is kagi a metasearch engine? Or does it have its own crawler and so on?

Fyi searx is deprecated or at least not maintained and discontinued Switch to searxNG which is an active fork and it is really good :D

I agree it does suck in general One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)

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