Moving on from CopilotKit and build my own with AI SDK Groq

Earl Jan Do

Earl Jan Do

6/20/2026 · 5 min read

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In the past few days I have been getting into the development of my AI assistant that I am planning to integrate into this Portfolio CMS later, it's a separate project repo for me to be able to play around and do experiments without touching my Portfolio CMS codebase yet just giving time for myself to get ready and get the grasp of how AI development works. And since I am having a hard time configuring CopilotKit to be honest because of the AI models that I can utilize yet is limited to free tier only, I don't have my own server yet to run LLM's and AI Models with paid token. I got hype when I followed the CopilotKit docs since there is a clear instruction there that will get your AI assistant with its own chat box with model already configured but little do I know that when I used up my token from OpenAI API token on Chatgpt mini model that's where everything changes for me. Then I came accross with Groq API and free AI Models since CopilotKit is just a GUI on frontend for chat box I just made my own and imbedded API key from Groq and use their free tier AI Models, I am having fun right now it's not easy as it seem but it's a journey that I can benefit from in the future. Right now I am planning on adding my Person AI Assistant component into my CMS to test it out but it is yet in its early stages so future updates and improvements are expected. Thank you