119: Why So Many Llamas?

Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models.

Special Guest: Wes Payne.

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• Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI for various LLM runners, supported LLM runners include Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Ollama — Get up and running with large language models, locally.
• Alex's Nix Nvidia Config
• tlm — Local CLI Copilot, powered by CodeLLaMa.
• LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs — 🤖 - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline

  👾 - Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server

  📂 - Download any compatible model files from HuggingFace 🤗 repositories

  🔭 - Discover new & noteworthy LLMs in the app's home page

• Hugging Face — The Home of Machine Learning
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!