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Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

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I didn't see any info on how this is different than installing/running llamacpp or koboldcpp. New offerings are awesome of course, but what is it adding?

The main difference is setting everything up yourself manually, downloading the modal, optimizing the parameters for best performance, running an API server and a UI front-end - which is out of reach for most non-technical people. With LlamaGPT, it's just one command: `docker compose up -d` or one click install for umbrelOS home server users.

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

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is it a free model or is the politically-correct-only response constraints in place?

It's powered by Nous Hermes Llama2 7b. From their docs: "This model stands out for its long responses, lower hallucination rate, and absence of OpenAI censorship mechanisms. [...] The model was trained almost entirely on synthetic GPT-4 outputs. Curating high quality GPT-4 datasets enables incredibly high quality in knowledge, task completion, and style."

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

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Ok, since is running all private, how can I add my own private data? For example I have a 20+ years of an email archive that I'd like to be ingested.

I imagine this means you’d need to come up with own model, even if based on existing one.

And is that hard? Sorry if this is a newbie question, I'm really out of the loop on this tech. What would be required? Computing power and tagging? Or can you like improve the model without much human intervention? Can it be done incrementally with usage and user feedback? Would a single user even be able to generate enough feedback for this?

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

#34

I didn't see any info on how this is different than installing/running llamacpp or koboldcpp. New offerings are awesome of course, but what is it adding?

The main difference is setting everything up yourself manually, downloading the modal, optimizing the parameters for best performance, running an API server and a UI front-end - which is out of reach for most non-technical people. With LlamaGPT, it's just one command: `docker compose up -d` or one click install for umbrelOS home server users.

thanks. yeah, that IS useful.

Anyone see if it contains utilities to import models from huggingface/github?

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

#35
post #13

So many projects still using GPT in their name. Is the thinking here that OpenAI is not going to defend that trademark? Or just kicking the can down the road on rebranding until the C&D letter arrives?

Well, GPT is simply an initialism for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer". In Germany, a trademark can be lost if it becomes a "Gattungsbegriff" (generic term). This happens when a trademark becomes so well-known and widely used that it becomes the common term for a product or service, rather than being associated with a specific company or brand. For example, if a company invented a new type of vacuum cleaner and t…

Actually in the UK and Ireland a vacuum cleaner is called a Hoover. But in general I think we do that less than Americans. For example, we don't call a public announcement system a "Tannoy". That's a brand of hifi speakers. And we'd say "photo copier" instead of Xerox.

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

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Nice project! I could not find the information in the README.md, can I run this with a GPU? If so what do I need to change? Seems like it's hardcoded to 0 in the run script: https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt/blob/master/api/run.s...

Ah yes, running on GPU isn't supported at the moment. But CUDA (for Nvidia GPUs) and Metal support is on the roadmap!

Ah fascinating, just curious, what's the technical blocker? I thought most of the Llama models were optimized to run on GPUs?

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

#38
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Oh I thought this was a quick guide to host it on any server (AWS / other clouds) of our choosing.

I had the same question initially, was a bit confused by the Umbrel reference at the top, but there's a section right below it titled "Install LlamaGPT anywhere else" which I think should work on any machine.

As an aside, UmbrelOS actually seems like a cool concept by itself btw, good to see these "self hosted cloud" projects coming together in a unified UI, I may investigate this more at some point.

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine this means you’d need to come up with own model, even if based on existing one.

And is that hard? Sorry if this is a newbie question, I'm really out of the loop on this tech. What would be required? Computing power and tagging? Or can you like improve the model without much human intervention? Can it be done incrementally with usage and user feedback? Would a single user even be able to generate enough feedback for this?

Yes, this would be quite hard. Fine-tuning an LLM is no simple task. The tools and guidance around it are very new, and arguably not meant for non-ML Engineers.

Re: Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! It can run on any home server or cloud server.

Interesting. I might try to get this to work on my NAS.

Good luck! The token/sec will be under your expectations or it will overheat. You really shouldn't play games with your data-storage. You could try it with an old laptop to see how bad it performs. Ruining your NAS for this is a bit over the top to show, that "it worked somehow". But i don't know, maybe your NAS has a powerful processor and is tuned to the max and you have redundancy and don't care to loose a NAS? Or this was just a joke and i fell for it! ;)
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