Llamafile Alternatives

llamafile reviews and mentions

• Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2024

  You might also try https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile , which may have better CPU-only performance than ollama. It does require you to grab .gguf files yourself (unless you use one of their prebuilts in which case it comes with the binary!), but with that done it's really easy to use and has decent performance.

  For reference, this is how I run it:

    $ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/[email protected]

• 6 Easy Ways to Run LLM Locally + Alpha
  8 projects | dev.to | 11 Nov 2024

  https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile support OS: Windows, Linux, MacOS Llamafile is an innovative project that allows for easy distribution and execution of large language models as a single file. It supports both CPU and GPU execution, making AI LLMs more accessible to end-users. Llamafile is designed to be user-friendly and efficient, with recent updates focusing on performance optimizations for various hardware architectures. It also includes a built-in server for handling requests and integrates well with other AI tools and frameworks

• Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2024
• Ask HN: Why is AI/LLMs so hard to install? Where's the one click installers?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2024

  Llamafile literally one file

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

• Run Llama locally with only PyTorch on CPU
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2024

  > then I recommend https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile which ships as a single file with no dependencies and runs on CPU with great performance. Like, such great performance that I've mostly given up on GPU for LLMs. It was a game changer.

  First time that I have a "it just works" experience with LLMs on my computer. Amazing. Thanks for the recommendation!

• The Fastest Mutexes
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2024

  Mozilla has a project called Llamafile (https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile) that's based on Cosmopolitan libc. And they do regularly publish popular models repackaged in that format on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/models?search=llamafile.

  Whether that in turn has any practical use beyond quickly trying out small models is another question.

• Ask HN: How can I experiment with LLMs with a old machine?
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2024

  Make yourself comfortable with

  https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/freedom-to-build-anno...

  https://gist.github.com/rssnyder/51e3cfedd730e7dd5f4a816143b...

  https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/

  or any other offer.

  Deploy some minimal Linux on them, or use what's offered.

  Plus optionally, if you don't want to instantly start coding from first principles/scratch, make use of established and excellent solutions, like

  https://future.mozilla.org/builders/news_insights/introducin...

  https://ai-guide.future.mozilla.org/content/running-llms-loc...

  https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

  https://justine.lol/matmul/

  and parallelize them with

  https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama

  Obviously this needs some knowledge of the command line, so get a good terminal emulator like

  https://iterm2.com/

  Mend, bend, rend that stuff and see what works how and why, and what not.

  Maybe with optional help from

  https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/

• Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2024

  I'll play around with it some more later. I was running llava-v1.5-7b-q4.llamafile which is the example that they recommend trying first at https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

  Groq looks interesting and might be a better option for me.

• Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2024

  To run text-to-speech on my laptop, I've been using Justine Tunney's downloadable single executable Whisper file.

  I use it transcribe audio then copy into an LLM to get notes on whatever it is. Helps me decide to watch or listen to something and saves a bunch of time.

  Her tweet: https://x.com/JustineTunney/status/1825551821857010143

  Instructions from Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/19/whisperfile/

  Command line options: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/issues/544#issueco...

• The 6 Best LLM Tools To Run Models Locally
  19 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2024

  Llamafile is backed by Mozilla whose aim is to support and make open source AI accessible to everyone using a fast CPU inference with no network access. It converts LLMs into multi-platform Executable Linkable Format (ELF). It provides one of the best options to integrate AI into applications by allowing you to run LLMs with just a single executable file.

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