Spliit VS ollama

For my expense sharing app [1], I added receipt scanning in a few minutes and a few lines of code by using GPT 4 with Vision. I am aware that LLMs often are a solution looking for a problem, but there are some situations where a bit of magic is just great :)

It is a Next.js application, calling OpenAI’s API using a plain API route.

[1] https://spliit.app

I created the project a couple of years ago to learn Go, but I just rewrote it using a stack I am more comfortable with (Next.js). I also made it open source [1], to feel free to contribute ;)

[1] https://github.com/scastiel/spliit2

I totally rewrote it (migrating the existing data of course) with a technology I am more familiar with (Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, Prisma…), and made the new version open source! Feel free to contribute by creating an issue or even a pull-request if you want 😉.

- Basic internet search (I start ollama CLI faster than I can start a browser - https://ollama.com)

- Formatting/changing text

- Troubleshooting code, esp. new frameworks/libs

- Recipes

- Data entry

- Organizing thoughts: High-level lists, comparison, classification, synonyms, jargon & nomenclature

- Learning esp. by analogy and example

RAG for:

- Website assistants (https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/e...)

- Game NPCs (https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/e...)

- Discord/Slack/forum bots (https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/e...)

- Character-driven storytelling and creating art in a specific style for video game loading screens, background images, avatars, website art, etc. (https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/r...)

Jan goes a step further by integrating with other local engines like LM Studio and ollama.

# install the Ollama curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh # get the llama3 model ollama pull llama2 # install the MLFlow pip install mlflow

Ollama for running LLMs locally

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

Streaming is not a problem (it's just a simple flag: https://github.com/wiktor-k/llama-chat/blob/main/index.ts#L2...) but I've never used voice input.

The examples show image input though: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md#reque...

Maybe you can file an issue here: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues

I’m a huge fan of open source models, especially the newly release Llama 3. Because of the performance of both the large 70B Llama 3 model as well as the smaller and self-host-able 8B Llama 3, I’ve actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription in favor of Open WebUI, a self-hostable ChatGPT-like UI that allows you to use Ollama and other AI providers while keeping your chat history, prompts, and other data locally on any computer you control.