Article 6MSQ7 [$] Portable LLMs with llamafile

[$] Portable LLMs with llamafile

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Large language models (LLMs) have been the subject of much discussion andscrutiny recently. Of particular interest to open-source enthusiasts are theproblems with running LLMs on one's own hardware - especially when doing sorequires NVIDIA's proprietary CUDA toolkit, which remains unavailable in manyenvironments.Mozilla has developedllamafile as apotential solution to these problems. Llamafile can compile LLM weightsinto portable, native executables for easy integration, archival, ordistribution. These executables can take advantage of supported GPUs whenpresent, but do not require them.

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