simpleAI VS llama-cpp-python

Not related to my own project SimpleAI despite the name, but looks like we can easily make the two work together, to keep it « simple ». Nice work!

Using this as an opportunity to mention my own related project, perhaps it can end up on your nice list one day. :)

https://github.com/lhenault/SimpleAI

You could have a look at a project I’ve been working on, SimpleAI, doing exactly this by replicating the OpenAI endpoints (you can then use their JS client for integration). Adding StableLM should be straightforward, I plan to add it to the examples in the upcoming days once I have a bit of time.

I’ve built SimpleAI with exactly these kinds of use cases in mind. That should allow supporting any model with minimal / no change to your project. Good job and good luck with LoopGPT, that looks nice!

You could give this a shot: https://github.com/lhenault/simpleAI

I don't know if this applies to your use case but this would probably work if you are looking for an llm to help with programming. Haven't really played around with it but this may work for general llm tasks, it doesn't have a web UI though.

As per llama.cpp specifically, you can indeed add any model, it's just a matter of doing a bit of glue code and declaring it in your models.toml config. It's quite straightforward thanks to some provided tools for Python (see here for instance). For any other language it's a matter of integrating it through the gRPC interface (which shouldn't be too hard for Llama.cpp if you're comfortable in C++). I'm planning to also add support for REST for model in the backend at some point too.

Shameless plug but I’ve been recently working on SimpleAI, a project replicating the main endpoints from OpenAI API, allowing you to seamlessly switch from their API to your own one, as it’s compatible with OpenAI client.

I wanted to share with you SimpleAI, a self-hosted alternative to OpenAI API.

There's a Python binding for llama.cpp which is actively maintained and has worked well for me: https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python

I'll share the core bit that took a while to figure out the right format, my main script is a hot mess using embeddings with SentenceTransformer, so I won't share that yet. E.g: last night I did a PR for llama-cpp-python that shows how Phi might be used with JSON only for the author to write almost exactly the same code at pretty much the same time. https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python/pull/1184

Python Bindings for llama.cpp

If the model could be made to work with llama.cpp, then https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python might be more compact. llama.cpp only supports a limited list of model types though.

https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python has a web server mode that replicates openai's API iirc and the readme shows it has docker builds already.

LocalAI https://localai.io/ and LMStudio https://lmstudio.ai/ both have fairly complete OpenAI compatibility layers. llama-cpp-python has a FastAPI server as well: https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python/blob/main/llama_... (as of this moment it hasn't merged GGUF update yet though)

I went with Python, llama-cpp-python, since my goal is just to get a small project up and running locally.