Late to the party, but thanks for setting this up! I suspect the overlap of people both using local LLMs and hungry for reddit alternatives will be higher than average
LocalLLaMA
Community to discuss about LLaMA, the large language model created by Meta AI.
This is intended to be a replacement for r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit.
Hello! Thanks for setting this up
Hello! This is the one community that I was a bit worried about finding an equivalent of outside of reddit. Hopefully more of us migrate over.
thank you for using a decent platform. i doubt more than 20 people will migrate from reddit... but it make the world a better place, anyways.
I could help with moderation, but I have a question, how to set up LLAma on my mac computer? any tips?
Hi, sure, thank you so much for helping out! As for LLaMA, I would point you at llama.cpp, (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) which is the absolute bleeding edge, but also has pretty useful instructions on the page (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#usage). You could also use Kobold.cpp, but I don't have any experience with it, so I can't help you if you have issues.
Adding to this: text-generation-webui (https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) works with the latest bleeding edge llama.cpp via llama-cpp-python, and it has a nice graphical front-end. You do have a manually tell pip to install llama.cpp-python with the right compiler flags to get GPU acceleration working but the llama-cpp-python github and ooba github explain how to do this.
You can even set up GPU acceleration through metal on m1 Macs I've seen some fucking INSANE performance numbers online for the higher RAM MacBook pros (20+ tokens/sec, I think with a 33b model, but it might have been 13b, either way, impressive.)