llamafile VS jan

Compare llamafile vs jan and see what are their differences.

llamafile

Distribute and run LLMs with a single file. (by Mozilla-Ocho)

jan

Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. Multiple engine support (llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM) (by janhq)
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llamafile jan
36 16
15,120 17,877
29.1% 18.9%
9.6 10.0
3 days ago 6 days ago
C++ TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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llamafile

Posts with mentions or reviews of llamafile. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
  • FLaNK-AIM Weekly 06 May 2024
    45 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2024
  • llamafile v0.8
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
  • Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B Moe Model
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
    I think the llamafile[0] system works the best. Binary works on the command line or launches a mini webserver. Llamafile offers builds of Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct, so presumably they may package this one up as well (potentially a quantized format).

    You would have to confirm with someone deeper in the ecosystem, but I think you should be able to run this new model as is against a llamafile?

    [0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

  • Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential 'Next Big Thing'
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
    Thermostats: https://www.sinopetech.com/en/products/thermostat/

    I haven't tried running a local text-to-speech engine backed by an LLM to control Home Assistant. Maybe someone is working on this already?

    TTS: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

    LLM: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

    LLM: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-D...

    It would take some tweaking to get the voice commands working correctly.

  • LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024
    While I did not succeed in making the matmul code from https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/blob/main/llamafil... work in isolation, I compared eigen, openblas, and mkl: https://gist.github.com/Dobiasd/e664c681c4a7933ef5d2df7caa87...

    In this (very primitive!) benchmark, MKL was a bit better than eigen (~10%) on my machine (i5-6600).

    Since the article https://justine.lol/matmul/ compared the new kernels with MLK, we can (by transitivity) compare the new kernels with Eigen this way, at least very roughly for this one use-case.

  • Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times for AMD Zen 4
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024
    Yes, they're just ZIP files that also happen to be actually portable executables.

    https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile?tab=readme-ov-file...

  • Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    have you seen llamafile[0]?

    [0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

  • FLaNK Stack 26 February 2024
    50 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2024
  • Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
    llama.cpp has integrated gemma support. So you can use llamafile for this. It is a standalone executable that is portable across most popular OSes.

    https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

    So, download the executable from the releases page under assets. You want either just main or just server. Don't get the huge ones with the model inlined in the file. The executable is about 30MB in size,

    https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/download/...

  • Ollama releases OpenAI API compatibility
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2024
    The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I'm torn as to which one to use :)

    1: Quite literally hours ago: https://euri.ca/blog/2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now/

jan

Posts with mentions or reviews of jan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing llamafile and jan you can also consider the following projects:

ollama - Get up and running with Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, and other large language models.

unstructured - Open source libraries and APIs to build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, or production machine learning pipelines.

ollama-webui - ChatGPT-Style WebUI for LLMs (Formerly Ollama WebUI) [Moved to: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui]

chainlit - Build Conversational AI in minutes ⚡️

langchain - 🦜🔗 Build context-aware reasoning applications

FLaNK-VectorDB - NiFi and Vector Databases

LLaVA - [NeurIPS'23 Oral] Visual Instruction Tuning (LLaVA) built towards GPT-4V level capabilities and beyond.

obsidian-local-llm - Obsidian Local LLM is a plugin for Obsidian that provides access to a powerful neural network, allowing users to generate text in a wide range of styles and formats using a local LLM.

llama.cpp - LLM inference in C/C++

modelfusion-llamacpp-nextjs-starter - Starter examples for using Next.js and the Vercel AI SDK with Llama.cpp and ModelFusion.

safetensors - Simple, safe way to store and distribute tensors

VOLlama - An accessible chat client for Ollama