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Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked GitHub page mentions “Language Learning Models”, so GP is saying that it seems like the authors of this project wrote the whole thing while not knowing what LLM actually stands for.

Or it was a simple typo.

It was a typo haha, someone just PR'd the fix for it. God knows how long it has been there - whoops

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#32

This looks sweet. Totally irrelevant but ... "Language Learning Model" ? Probably just some brainfart or I'm missing something but it would be hilarious if the authors of this did this whole project without knowing what LLM stands for.

It was indeed a brainfart on my end that has then been in there since the dawn of time. Pretty funny honestly

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#33

I noticed you put LiteLLM in your list of providers. Was that just marketing, or did you re-implement model support for all the models LiteLLM already supports separately?

You can use LiteLLM _as the LLM provider_ which is just a relay to a ton of other models. For people who already have it set up connecting to x,y,z providers can keep that work and use it for inferencing as well

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

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How do you ensure "privacy by default" if you are also providing cloud models?

It's not my position to "impose" a preference on a user for an LLM.

Privacy by default means "if you use the defaults, it's private".

Obviously, if your computer is low-end or you really have been loving GPT-4o or Claude you _can_ use just that external component while still using a local vector db, document storage, etc.

So its basically like opt-in for external usage of any particular part of the app, whether that be an LLM, embedder model, vector db, or otherwise.

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#35
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post #10

LLM will become like web frameworks in the future, in the sense that they will be free, open source, and everybody will be able to build on them. Sure, there will be paid options, such as there are paid web frameworks, but most of the time free options will be more than good enough for most of the jobs.

What is your argumentation for that? It seems that building LLMs is very costly, and that will probably remain so for quite some time. I think it is equally likely that LLMs will perform worse in the future, because of copyright reasons and increased privacy awareness, leading to less diverse data sets to train on.

Building software was very costly and hard 30 years ago. Things get cheaper and simpler with time. LLM will become a tool to use in your work, such as frameworks or libraries. Some people will, other people won't (mostly those to maintain projects without them).

I hope to be right or I will be jobless lol

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#36

$ docker pull mintplexlabs/anythingllm Using default tag: latest Error response from daemon: Get " https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/ ": net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

This is a connection issue for your docker cli - we have seen this issue before and it had to do with client proxy.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48066666

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#37

what kind of pc does it need ? ram, etc?

Depends on the model you want to run! That is the beauty of it. If you can muster that ability to run a Q4 Llama3.1 8B - great, if your specs are really low end you can always outsource to a cloud provider.

Maybe you want to run privately, but can only manage a Gemma-2B - then great, you can use that also.

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#38

This looks really great. Are you planning on adding shortcut keys anytime soon?

We actually are planning to really lean into the "Desktop assistant" style of things, so yes absolutely. Like how on Mac you can cmd+space to launch spotlight, we can offer the same functionality alongside everything else.

WIP!

Re: Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

#40

Downloaded and checked it out. Looks great so far. Tried using it to read a bunch of regulatory PDFs using GPT-4o. Some quick and early feedback: 1. The citations seem to be a bit dicey. The response seems to give largely correct answers but the citations window seems to show content that's a bit garbled. 2. Please please add a text search to search within existing chat content. Like if I searched for something about…

For your 2nd suggestion, this would be solved if previous chats were (automatically) added to the vector database. Is this possible in this or similar apps?
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