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AI in Home Assistant: local LLMs, cloud agents, voice, MCP and cameras
Every way to use AI in Home Assistant in 2026: Ollama, OpenAI, Gemini and Claude agents, the MCP server and AI Tasks, compared on cost and privacy.
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Assist, local voice, and the cloud models people connect to Home Assistant. The page says which part leaves the house.
Assist is the local voice pipeline. A cloud conversation is a different choice, and the article says which one it is.