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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.

Start LocalAI

Start the image with Docker to have a functional clone of OpenAI! 🚀:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name local-ai -ti localai/localai:latest-aio-cpu
# Do you have a Nvidia GPUs? Use this instead
# CUDA 11
# docker run -p 8080:8080 --gpus all --name local-ai -ti localai/localai:latest-aio-gpu-cuda-11
# CUDA 12
# docker run -p 8080:8080 --gpus all --name local-ai -ti localai/localai:latest-aio-gpu-cuda-12

See the 💻 Quickstart for all the options and way you can run LocalAI!

What is LocalAI?

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
• 💾 Stores

Contribute and help

To help the project you can:

• 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.

• 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! 🤗