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Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

#81

Happy to answer any questions and open for suggestions :) It's basically a LLMs with access to a search engine and the ability to query a vector db. The top n results from each search query (initialized by the LLM) will be scraped, split into little chunks and saved to the vector db. The LLM can then query this vector db to get the relevant chunks. This obviously isn't as comprehensive as having a 128k context LLM ju…

any plans to support other backends besides ollama?

Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

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In five year's time - by 2030, I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand. Think docker registry of AI models which is pretty much Hugging Face already there.

This all would be due to optimisations within model inference code and techniques, hardware and packaging of software like the above.

Don't see billion dollar valuations for lots of AI startups out there to materialise into anything.

Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

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post #82

In five year's time - by 2030, I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand. Think docker registry of AI models which is pretty much Hugging Face already there. This all would be due to optimisations within model inference code and techniques, hardware and packaging of software like the above. Don't see billion dollar valuations for lots of AI startups o…

> I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand

Why? It's much more efficient to have centralized special purpose hardware to run enormous models and then ship the comparatively small result over the internet.

By analogy, you don't have a search engine running on your phone right?

Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

#86
post #82

In five year's time - by 2030, I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand. Think docker registry of AI models which is pretty much Hugging Face already there. This all would be due to optimisations within model inference code and techniques, hardware and packaging of software like the above. Don't see billion dollar valuations for lots of AI startups o…

> I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand Why? It's much more efficient to have centralized special purpose hardware to run enormous models and then ship the comparatively small result over the internet. By analogy, you don't have a search engine running on your phone right?

A more appropriate analogy would be driving your own car vs. taking the bus.

Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

#88
post #82

In five year's time - by 2030, I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand. Think docker registry of AI models which is pretty much Hugging Face already there. This all would be due to optimisations within model inference code and techniques, hardware and packaging of software like the above. Don't see billion dollar valuations for lots of AI startups o…

> I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand Why? It's much more efficient to have centralized special purpose hardware to run enormous models and then ship the comparatively small result over the internet. By analogy, you don't have a search engine running on your phone right?

You currently can't have a search engine running locally on your phone. Google search is possible the single largest c++ program every built. And nevermind the storage needs...

But in a few years we might be able to have LLMs running on our phones that work just as well if not better. Of couse as you mention the LLMs running on large servers might still be much more powerfull, but the local ones might be powerfull enough.

Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

#89

A while back you commented on my personal project Airdraw which I really appreciated. This looks awesome and you're well on your way to another banger project - looking forward to toying around with this :)

Did you just happened to see this post today and notice the username?

Re: Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

#90

That’s a great project you pulled off. From the time I starred it (10-12h ago I think), and upon re-checking this post, you gained 500+ stars lol. Visualized in a chart with star-history: https://star-history.com/#nilsherzig/LLocalSearch

haha thanks for the chart link. i woke up with 1k more than it had yesterday, im kinda stressed out
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