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What would be the non Mac computer to run these models locally at the same performance profile? Any similar linux ARM based computers that can reach the same level?
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I very recently installed llama.cpp on my consumer-grade M4 MBP, and I've been having loads of fun poking and prodding the local models. There's now a ChatGPT style interface baked into llama.cpp, which is very handy for quick experimentation. (I'm not entirely sure what Ollama would get me that llama.cpp doesn't, happy to hear suggestions!) There are some surprisingly decent models that happily fit even into a mere…
Oh does llama.cpp use MLX or whatever? I had this question, wonder if you know? A search suggests it doesn’t but I don’t really understand.
LLMs on device is the future. It's more secure and solves the problem of too much demand for inference compared to data center supply, it also would use less electricity. It's just a matter of getting the performance good enough. Most users don't need frontier model performance.
I created "apfel" https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel a CLI for the apple on-device local foundation model (Apple intelligence) yeah its super limited with its 4k context window and super common false positives guardrails (just ask it to describe a color) ... bit still ... using it in bash scripts that just work without calling home / out or incurring extra costs feels super powerful.
any plans for providing it through brew for easy installation?
Already running qwen 70b 4-bit on m2 max 96gb through llama.cpp and it's pretty solid for day to day stuff. The mlx switch is interesting because ollama was basically shelling out to llama.cpp on mac before, so native mlx should mean better memory handling on apple silicon. Curious to see how it compares on the bigger models vs the gguf path
LLMs on device is the future. It's more secure and solves the problem of too much demand for inference compared to data center supply, it also would use less electricity. It's just a matter of getting the performance good enough. Most users don't need frontier model performance.
I very recently installed llama.cpp on my consumer-grade M4 MBP, and I've been having loads of fun poking and prodding the local models. There's now a ChatGPT style interface baked into llama.cpp, which is very handy for quick experimentation. (I'm not entirely sure what Ollama would get me that llama.cpp doesn't, happy to hear suggestions!) There are some surprisingly decent models that happily fit even into a mere…
LLMs on device is the future. It's more secure and solves the problem of too much demand for inference compared to data center supply, it also would use less electricity. It's just a matter of getting the performance good enough. Most users don't need frontier model performance.
> would use less electricity Sorry to shatter your bubble, but this is patently false, LLMs are far more efficient on hardware that simultaneously serves many requests at once. There's also the (environmental and monetary) cost of producing overpowered devices that sit idle when you're not using them, in contrast to a cloud GPU, which can be rented out to whoever needs it at a given moment, potentially at a lower cos…
The LLM inference itself may be more efficient (though this may be impacted by different throughput vs. latency tradeoffs; local inference makes it easier to run with higher latency) but making the hardware is not. The cost for datacenter-class hardware is orders of magnitude higher, and repurposing existing hardware is a real gain in efficiency.
LLMs on device is the future. It's more secure and solves the problem of too much demand for inference compared to data center supply, it also would use less electricity. It's just a matter of getting the performance good enough. Most users don't need frontier model performance.
LLM in silicon is the future. It won't be long until you can just plug an LLM chip into your computer and talk to it at 100x the speed of current LLMs. Capability will be lower but their speed will make up for it.
Just plug in a stick in your USB-C port or add an M.2 or PCIe board and you'll get dramatically faster AI inference.
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It feels like you'll soon need a local llm to intermediate with the remote llm, like an ad blocker for browsers to stop them injecting ads or remind you not to send corporate IP out onto the Internet.
I'd like to coin the term "user agent" for this
could also be considered a triage layer