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Re: Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This point is understated. So many people are going around like "I'm building an AI app!" when the reality is, OpenAI built an AI app, you're just designing a front end for it.

OpenAI builds an LLM and an api-interface to that model. The design of abstractions, prompt engineering, custom fine-tunes and software engineering required to ship a valuable application on top of that interface counts as "building an app" in my book.

It's just like building a Facebook app back in the day

Replace social media / graph APIs with the ones from OpenAI

Re: Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

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Nothing open source is quite as good as GPT-4 yet but the community continues to edge closer.

For general use Falcon seems to be the current best:

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae

For code specifically Replit's model seems to be the best:

https://huggingface.co/replit/replit-code-v1-3b

Re: Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

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Worth noting that Llama and derivatives most likely can be used for commercial use, despite what the licensing terms say. There seems to be growing consensus that model weights are not copyrightable, and therefore adhering to the terms of the license isn't required if you downloaded them from a third party. Obviously being legally right doesn't necessarily save you from having Meta's legal team breathing down your ne…

So if I embed a custom "special sauce" model in my phone app, to do inference faster on the device, my bigger competitors could simply extract it from the bundle and use it too?

Perhaps that's okay, I don't know, but it seems strange that the little pieces of client-side javascript are so copyrightable yet this other work isn't.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

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https://gpt4all.io/ works fairly well on my 16 GB M1 Pro MacBook. It's certainly not on a level with ChatGPT, but what is? It's a simple app download and allows you to select from multiple available models. No hacking required.

> It's certainly not on a level with ChatGPT, but what is? Guanaco-65B is per https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314 CPU Version: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GGML GPU Version: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-65B-HF 4bit GPU Version: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GPTQ

how can we load this 4bit GPU Version: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GPTQas that is in safetensors format

Re: Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

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I don't know the licensing and all that jazz (even if you self-host for your personal use it shouldn't matter). But, this paper[0] released a week ago claims " 99.3% of the performance level of ChatGPT while only requiring 24 hours of finetuning on a single GPU" (QLORA). A quick test of the huggingface demo gives reasonable results[1]. The actual model behind the space is here[2], and should be self-hostable with rea…

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