airunner VS aihandler

AI Runner is an application that I have been developing for over a year. This next iteration is a near total rewrite and adds lots of new features - what started out as an AI Art application has evolved into a multi-modal AI assistant built with pure python. It runs locally and offline on your own hardware (I recommend using an RTX 2080s or higher).

You can get the source here: https://github.com/Capsize-Games/airunner/

Hi all, I've been working on this application for quite some time. It started out as a Stable Diffusion art app, and is now transitioning into a full featured AI assistant of sorts.

The video features me talking to the computer using my headphones. It records my speech, translates bytes to text, passes that to the LLM which generates text, and then uses another model for text to speech.

The video also shows me asking for an image at which point the LLM generates a prompt. Stable Diffusion is loaded and the prompt is passed to SD to generate the image.

The models I'm using:

- TTS: SpeechT5

- LLM: Mistral 7b

- Stable Diffusion: Turbo

- STT: whisper-tiny

- Vision: various, still in development

As I mentioned there at the end, vision is still in development. I have a working prototype in which images are taken every second, translated into text and then passed to my chat prompt. It works OK but is often wrong.

The project is open source under GPL-3, written with Python using PyQT6. You can find it here:

https://github.com/Capsize-Games/airunner

The compiled stable version is available for download on itch, but only includes image generation capabilities, everything else is in the unreleased 3.0.0 version

https://capsizegames.itch.io/ai-runner

I am the creator of AI Runner, an application that allows you to run Stable Diffusion and LLMs locally on your own hardware. It is built with pure python using PyQT6, Huggingface and many more libraries. The goal is to create a local AI Assistant that can run on local hardware.

Although the current compiled production version 2.2.0 is limited to Stable Diffusion, I have added LLM support and much more to the upcoming v3.0.0.

With it you can run chatbots, connect your camera and microphone to pull images and text for use with the chat bot (a work in progress) and much more.

I test heavily using a 2080s. Version 2.2.0 has also been tested with a 1080GTX and also runs on the CPU (albeit very slowly).

I'm using agents and tools for the bot as well, so you can make it do things like RAG, control the application, launch apps on your computer, generate prompts for stable diffusion and much more.

Additionally I have added text to speech (there are currently two options with various settings to choose from, SpeechT5 and Bark).

AI Runner is GPL 3.0 and uses pyinstaller to create a compiled version for Windows and Ubuntu, available here https://capsizegames.itch.io/ai-runner

Version 3.0.0 is still under development. I hope to launch within the next month or so, but if you'd like to get a pre-release preview you can install the latest version from master.

This is a passion project of mine that I've been working on since 2022. The upcoming version has been in development for around 7 months and during that time I got Covid and the flu which slowed me down by a little over a month.

If you have questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Hi, I am the creator of AI Runner - a GUI that allows you to run Stable Diffusion and Kandinsky locally from your own hardware without installing any additional libraries. It is a compiled open source application. Its currently 50% off during the itch.io summer sale (or free if you want to install the requirements from source - see link at the end of this post for more info)

I created a lowcost opensource no-install stable diffusion / kandinsky app called AI Runner that you might be interested in checking out https://capsizegames.itch.io/ai-runner

Bummer tho bud, sorry we couldn't get you up and running but good luck and don't give up yet lol, there are plenty of other UIs you can try out :D That reminds me, there's this one I tried a bit ago that someone on here released, it was easy to set up and would probably work for you.

AI Runner

As always, this is a work in progress. If you run into bugs, feel free to DM or join my Discord server or file a report on github

I mentioned this in an above comment - here is a repo that I use in two of my apps that I compiled with pyinstaller and distribute:

https://github.com/Capsize-Games/aihandler/blob/master/setup...

There are hundreds of not thousands of developers who have contributed to the libraries and dependencies of those libraries.

Are you saying that you feel it is up to someone (myself or some service) to track down and verify the identity of each of these developers, and that I shouldn't use these libraries or distribute them until that happens?

I have open sourced three of my projects that are somewhat related. You may find the compiled apps useful for your own creative projects, or perhaps you'd like to contribute to the codebase, or just use it to learn.

I have spoken about the apps on here in the past, but here's a break down:

AI Runner A no-install Stable Diffusion AI art application.

Github https://github.com/Capsize-Games/airunner

Itch https://capsizegames.itch.io/ai-runner

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Chat AI: A no-install Google Flan-T5 interface and chatbot.

Github https://github.com/Capsize-Games/chatai

Itch https://capsizegames.itch.io/chat-ai

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AI Handler The controller / engine that powers them both.

Github https://github.com/Capsize-Games/aihandler

This includes an offline client written for pyqt that works with signals (as well as one that doesn't) + a socket server & client. It also includes a queuing system etc.

It has the ability to switch between stable diffusion art generation and LLM text generation, handles memory management etc.

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All of them:

* GPL-3.0

* Python

* Available on pypi

* Still need some work.

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A note about the state of the code:

I switched from tkinter to pyqt recently.

Currently I'm only making use of the pyqt offline client. The socket server is probably slightly broken. I've created a Unity plugin that uses it, so I'll fix it and release that as well soon.

There may be caveats to installation of the code via pypi or otherwise. Compiled apps are in a working state, so if you choose to use from github, use it from the tagged releases, not master or develop branches.