inference VS llmware

Yeah, inference[1] is our open source package for running locally (either directly in Python or via a Docker container). It works with all the models on Universe, models you train yourself (assuming we support the architecture; we have a bunch of notebooks available[2]), or train in our platform, plus several more general foundation models[3] (for things like embeddings, zero-shot detection, question answering, OCR, etc).

We also have a hosted API[4] you can hit for most models we support (except some of the large vision models that are really GPU-heavy) if you prefer.

[1] https://github.com/roboflow/inference

[2] https://github.com/roboflow/notebooks

[3] https://inference.roboflow.com/foundation/about/

[4] https://docs.roboflow.com/deploy/hosted-api

I couldn't agree more. You should check out LLMWare's SLIM agents (https://github.com/llmware-ai/llmware/tree/main/examples/SLI...). It's focusing on pretty much exactly this and chaining multiple local LLMs together.

A really good topic that ties in with this is the need for deterministic sampling (I may have the terminology a bit incorrect) depending on what the model is indended for. The LLMWare team did a good 2 part video on this here as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oMTGhSKuNY)

I think dedicated miniture LLMs are the way forward.

Disclaimer - Not affiliated with them in any way, just think it's a really cool project.

I've been building upon the LLMWare project - https://github.com/llmware-ai/llmware - for the past 3 months. The ability to run these models locally on standard consumer CPUs, along with the abstraction provided to chop and change between models and different processes is really cool.

I think these SLIM models are the start of something powerful for automating internal business processes and enhancing the use case of LLMs. Still kinda blows my mind that this is all running on my 3900X and also runs on a bog standard Hetzner server with no GPU.

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