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LocalAI

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LocalAI is a drop-in replacement REST API that's compatible with OpenAI API specifications for local inferencing. It allows you to run LLMs (and not only) locally or on-prem with consumer grade hardware, supporting multiple model families that are compatible with the ggml format. Does not require GPU.

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In a nutshell:

  • Local, OpenAI drop-in alternative REST API. You own your data.
  • NO GPU required. NO Internet access is required either
    • Optional, GPU Acceleration is available in llama.cpp-compatible LLMs. See also the build section.
  • Supports multiple models
  • 🏃 Once loaded the first time, it keep models loaded in memory for faster inference
  • Doesn't shell-out, but uses C++ bindings for a faster inference and better performance.

LocalAI was created by Ettore Di Giacinto and is a community-driven project, focused on making the AI accessible to anyone. Any contribution, feedback and PR is welcome!

Note that this started just as a fun weekend project in order to try to create the necessary pieces for a full AI assistant like ChatGPT: the community is growing fast and we are working hard to make it better and more stable. If you want to help, please consider contributing (see below)!

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💻 Usage

Check out the Getting started section in our documentation.

💡 Example: Use GPT4ALL-J model

See the documentation

🔗 Resources

Citation

If you utilize this repository, data in a downstream project, please consider citing it with:

@misc{localai, author = {Ettore Di Giacinto}, title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative}, year = {2023}, publisher = {GitHub}, journal = {GitHub repository}, howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}}, }

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A huge thank you to our generous sponsors who support this project:

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Spectro Cloud kindly supports LocalAI by providing GPU and computing resources to run tests on lamdalabs!

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📖 License

LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto.

MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto

🙇 Acknowledgements

LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!

🤗 Contributors

This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors! 🤗