nitro

An inference server on top of llama.cpp. OpenAI-compatible API, queue, & scaling. Embed a prod-ready, local inference engine in your apps. Powers Jan (by janhq)

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  • Ollama Python and JavaScript Libraries
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    I'd like to see a comparison to nitro https://github.com/janhq/nitro which has been fantastic for running a local LLM.
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    41 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2024
  • Nitro: A fast, lightweight 3MB inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
    Look... I appreciate a cool project, but this is probably not a good idea.

    > Built on top of the cutting-edge inference library llama.cpp, modified to be production ready.

    It's not. It's literally just llama.cpp -> https://github.com/janhq/nitro/blob/main/.gitmodules

    Llama.cpp makes no pretense at being a robust safe network ready library; it's a high performance library.

    You've made no changes to llama.cpp here; you're just calling the llama.cpp API directly from your drogon app.

    Hm.

    ...

    Look... that's interesting, but, honestly, I know there's this wave of "C++ is back!" stuff going on, but building network applications in C++ is very tricky to do right, and while this is cool, I'm not sure 'llama.cpp is in c++ because it needs to be fast' is a good reason to go 'so lets build a network server in c++ too!'.

    I mean, I guess you could argue that since llama.cpp is a C++ application, it's fair for them to offer their own server example with an openai compatible API (which you can read about here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/4216, https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/...).

    ...but a production ready application?

    I wrote a rust binding to llama.cpp and my conclusion was that llama.cpp is pretty bleeding edge software, and bluntly, you should process isolate it from anything you really care about, if you want to avoid undefined behavior after long running inference sequences; because it updates very often, and often breaks. Those breaks are usually UB. It does not have a 'stable' version.

    Further more, when you run large models and run out of memory, C++ applications are notoriously unreliable in their 'handle OOM' behaviour.

    Soo.... I know there's something fun here, but really... unless you had a really really compelling reason to need to write your server software in c++ (and I see no compelling reason here), I'm curious why you would?

    It seems enormously risky.

    The quality of this code is 'fun', not 'production ready'.

  • Apple Silicon Llama 7B running in docker?
    5 projects | /r/LocalLLaMA | 7 Dec 2023
  • Is there any LLM that can be installed with out python
    2 projects | /r/LocalLLaMA | 5 Dec 2023
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janhq/nitro is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of nitro is C++.


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