Hey everyone, I’m interested in using a local LLM (Language Model) on a Linux system to create a long story, but I’m not sure where to start. Does anyone have experience with this or know of any resources that could help me get started? I’d love to hear your tips and suggestions. Thanks!
Have you tried GPT4All https://gpt4all.io/index.html ? It runs on CPU so is a bit slow, but it’s a way to run various LLM locally with an plug and play, easy to use solution. That said, LLM are huge, and perform better on GPU, provided you have a GPU big enough. Here is the trap. How much do you want to spend in a GPU ?
On GPU it is okay. GTX-1080 with a R5 3700X.
It has just written a 24 page tourist info booklet about the town I live in and a bunch of it is very inaccurate or outdated on the places to go. Fun and impressive anyway. Took only a few minutes.
If you get just the right gguf model (read the description when you download them to get the right K-optimization or whatever it’s called) and actually use multithreading (llamacpp supports multithreading so in theory gpt4all should too), then it’s reasonably fast. I’ve achieved roughly half the speed of ChatGPT just on a 8 core amd fx with ddr3 ram.