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Unlock the Power of Meta Llama LLM: Easy Guide to Hosting in Your Local Dev Environment

Bradston Henry on November 22, 2024

In my previous post I described how AI tools have revolutionized my Development workflow. Toward the end of the blog, I shared the step-by-step on...
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Anton Maryukhnenko •

You forgot to mention hardware requirements for different models.

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leob • • Edited

That's also what I'm curious about - maybe if I want to do this I first need a big hardware upgrade ... I think until then I'll have to pass on this.

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Bradston Henry •

To @anton_maryukhnenko_1ef094 's point, I need to update this blog to mention the general hardware requirements for Llama at least. I think that would be helpful to others..

@leob I took a chance on my old dying comp with Ollama and Llama3.2 and it ended up working. You should have heard the fan though. haha. It just so happened I NEEDED an upgrade so my new/current comp is more capable and has been fairing pretty well. If I do end up running into any hiccups, I will definitely try and share.

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leob •

Thanks ... I'd probably end up wanting a SEPARATE "box" (hardware) dedicated to it and optimized for it (with a GPU and all that), so as not to "burden" my main workstation - then do the "queries" over a fast local network!

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cesar hernan ruscica •

Hi, excellent post, I wonder why don't try another more friendly interface like LLM studio.
Thanks!

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Bradston Henry •

I personally have upgraded to using Open Web UI. I'm actually in the process of writing up a blog on the steps to getting that working on your local machine. :-)

It is SOOOO much better than using the command line interface but cmd interface was a good start for me when I was first experimenting with local LLMs.

Haven't tried LLM studio but I'm going to look into it. How do you like LLM studio?

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leob •

Great post ... just curious: why would I want this, instead of using ChatGPT or other cloud-hosted/online AI tools?

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cesar hernan ruscica •

No censorship, no limits for questions, and the most important thing, privacy!

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leob •

Makes sense - it's just that the hardware requirements might be a bit of a concern ...

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Bradston Henry • • Edited

Def privacy but also I use it when developing applications and can use the Ollama python library in my local applications to directly access the LLMs I desire. Knowing I have no limitations on how many requests I can make is very nice.

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All Win Club •

Hey, i sended you a message on X. Answer me when possible!