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LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#11

M1 is only 3 years old and no one cares to support intel macs any more. There are surely a lot of them out there. Are they that much worse to run LLMs on?

Ollama works super fine on Intel Mac

The demo on this video is from Intel Mac https://youtu.be/C0GmAmyhVxM?si=puTCpGWButsNvKA5

It also supports openai compatible api and completely open-source unlike LM studio

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #11

M1 is only 3 years old and no one cares to support intel macs any more. There are surely a lot of them out there. Are they that much worse to run LLMs on?

Ollama works super fine on Intel Mac The demo on this video is from Intel Mac https://youtu.be/C0GmAmyhVxM?si=puTCpGWButsNvKA5 It also supports openai compatible api and completely open-source unlike LM studio

Yeah, ollama since way nicer in UX

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #11

M1 is only 3 years old and no one cares to support intel macs any more. There are surely a lot of them out there. Are they that much worse to run LLMs on?

Ollama works super fine on Intel Mac The demo on this video is from Intel Mac https://youtu.be/C0GmAmyhVxM?si=puTCpGWButsNvKA5 It also supports openai compatible api and completely open-source unlike LM studio

Ollama's API is not openai compatible.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #7

This app could use some simple UI improvements: - The chatbox field has a normal "write here" state, when no chat is really selected. I thought my keyboard broke until I discovered that - I didn't find a way to set cuda acceleration before loading a model, only managed to set gpu offloaded layers and using "relaunch to apply" - Some HugginFace models are simply not listed and there's no indication about why. I guess…

It’s basically a front end for llama.cpp, so it will only show models with GGUF quantizations.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #7

This app could use some simple UI improvements: - The chatbox field has a normal "write here" state, when no chat is really selected. I thought my keyboard broke until I discovered that - I didn't find a way to set cuda acceleration before loading a model, only managed to set gpu offloaded layers and using "relaunch to apply" - Some HugginFace models are simply not listed and there's no indication about why. I guess…

Those are really weird bugs, how do you even manage that these days

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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For my experiments with new self-hostable models on Linux, I've been using a script to download GGUF-models from TheBloke on HuggingFace (currently, TheBloke's repository has 657 models in the GGUF format) which I feed to a simple program I wrote which invokes llama.cpp compiled with GPU support. The GGUF format and TheBloke are a blessing, because I'm able to check out new models basically on the day of their release (TheBloke is very fast) and without an issue. However, the only frontend I have is console. Judging by their site, their setup is exactly the same as mine (which I implemented over a weekend), except that they also added a React-based UI on top. I wonder, how they're planning to commercialize it, because it's pretty trivial to replicate, and there're already open-source UI's like oogabooga.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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I don't mean this as a criticism, I'm just curious because I work in this space too: who is this for? What is the niche of people savvy enough to use this who can't run one of the many open source local llm software? It looks in the screenshot like it's exposing much of the complexity of configuration anyway. Is the value in the interface and management of conversation and models? It would be nice to see info or even speculation about the potential market segments of LLM users.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #6
post #2

So if you suspect I am using this for business related purposes you may take any action you want to spy on me? Such Terms. Very Use.

Thats why as a business i would rather use a trusted FOSS LLm interface like textgeneration-WEBUI https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Or a simpler alternative: https://ollama.ai/

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #17

I don't mean this as a criticism, I'm just curious because I work in this space too: who is this for? What is the niche of people savvy enough to use this who can't run one of the many open source local llm software? It looks in the screenshot like it's exposing much of the complexity of configuration anyway. Is the value in the interface and management of conversation and models? It would be nice to see info or even…

In most workplaces that deal with LLMs you’ve got a few classes of people:

1. People who understand LLMs and know how to run them and have access to run them on the cloud. 2. People who understand LLMs well enough but don’t have access to cloud resources - but still have a decent MacBook Pro. Or maybe access to cloud resources is done via overly tight pipelines. 3. People who are interested in LLMs but don’t have enough technical chops/time to get things going with Llama CPP. 4. People who are fans of LLMs but can’t even install stuff in their computer.

This is clearly for #3 and it works well for that group of people. It could also be for #2 when they don’t want to spin up their own front end.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

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post #17

I don't mean this as a criticism, I'm just curious because I work in this space too: who is this for? What is the niche of people savvy enough to use this who can't run one of the many open source local llm software? It looks in the screenshot like it's exposing much of the complexity of configuration anyway. Is the value in the interface and management of conversation and models? It would be nice to see info or even…

I got Mistral-7b running locally, and although it wasn't hard, it did take some time nonetheless. I just wanted to try it out and was not that interested in the technical details.
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