VivaAI Blog #1 (Patreon)

So at this point I assume you have all seen the trailer. What you see is what is complete. What's left is adding a few guard rails and doing some test runs.

Recap: You can download and customize your own character to have your own desktop chatbot! Cards are also back.

There will be more Viva like features added as time progresses to eventually become on par with the original Viva 1. It is true that this time I will be choosing your desktop as the environment but that does not mean that there won't be props or things for your bot to do! At the heart it's still a Unity game, AI is just a layer of frosting.

One of the very first things people ask me is how I'm going to be handling the AI generation. At the moment VivaAI uses ElevenLabs and OpenAI. They offered the easiest and best rates for offloading the GPU requirements for running and training AI models. Because of this I have been working on a financial plan to handle AI request volume. It is totally manageable given my Patreon's current membership rates but I want to make sure I have a way to catch the outliers who may or may not use the service a lot.

Given the variable distribution for requests, I am also working on setting up alternatives including but not limited to: self-hosting, self-serving, LLM alternative services.

I am aiming to release v0.1 as subscriber-only for the first 1~2 months to make sure the financial landing goes well.

Stay tuned!