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LocalAI is the free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. LocalAI act as a drop-in replacement REST API that's compatible with OpenAI API specifications for local inferencing. It allows you to run LLMs, generate images, audio (and not only) locally or on-prem with consumer grade hardware, supporting multiple model families and architectures. Does not require GPU. It is maintained by mudler.
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. 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 bindings for a faster inference and better performance.
LocalAI is 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 by mudler 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)!
🚀 Features
- 📖 Text generation with GPTs (
llama.cpp,gpt4all.cpp, ... 📖 and more) - 🗣 Text to Audio
- 🔈 Audio to Text (Audio transcription with
whisper.cpp) - 🎨 Image generation with stable diffusion
- 🔥 OpenAI functions 🆕
- 🧠 Embeddings generation for vector databases
- ✍️ Constrained grammars
- 🖼️ Download Models directly from Huggingface
- 🆕 Vision API
Contribute and help
To help the project you can:
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If you have technological skills and want to contribute to development, have a look at the open issues. If you are new you can have a look at the good-first-issue and help-wanted labels.
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If you don't have technological skills you can still help improving documentation or add examples or share your user-stories with our community, any help and contribution is welcome!
🌟 Star history
📖 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!
- llama.cpp
- https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
- https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
- https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
- https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
- https://github.com/saharNooby/rwkv.cpp
- https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
🤗 Contributors
This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors! 🤗