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Someone made a GPT-like chatbot that runs locally on Raspberry Pi, and you can too (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Direct link to the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/nickbild/local_llm_assistant?tab=readme-ov-file

It's a small model by comparison. If you want something that's offline and actually closer to comparing to ChatGPT 3.5, you'll want the Mixtral 8x7B model instead (running on a beefy machine):

https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sick, I only need 90gb of VRAM!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got it running with a 3090 and 32GB of RAM.

There are some models that let you run with hybrid system RAM and VRAM (it will just be slower than running it exclusively with VRAM).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but damn does it get slow.

I always find it interesting how text is so much slower than image generation. I can do a 1024x1024 in probably 20s, but I get like 1 word a second with text.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets 5 points 1 year ago

Languages are complex and, more importantly, much less forgiving to error

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! Thats a cool project, ill have to give it a try. I love the idea of self hosting local LLMs. Ive been playing around with: https://lmstudio.ai/ and it directly downloads from hugging face.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's also ollama which seems to be similar. Not sure if LMStudio is open source but ollama is.