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koboldcpp
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LostRuins / koboldcpp

koboldcpp

KoboldCpp - Run GGUF AI models locally with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.

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KoboldCpp - Run GGUF AI models locally with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.

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Observed mentions: 2023-04-07 15:35:51 UTC to 2026-06-28 05:44:05 UTC.

051015202023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 1 submissions, 18 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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What Hacker News says

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It would be great if you included a section on running with Docker on Linux. The only one that worked out of the box was Ollama, and it had an example. https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/docker.md has a docker image but no examples to run it https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/dock... has a docker image but no examples to run it https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp?tab=readme-ov-file#do... docker image was broken for me on 7800xt running rhel9 https://github.com/Atinoda/text-generation-webui-docker
In AMD GPU Inference
MiniCPM-V 2.6 is based on Qwen 2 and is also great at handwriting. It works locally with KoboldCPP. Here are the results I got with a test I just did. Image: * https://imgur.com/wg0kdQK Output: * https://pastebin.com/RKvYQasi OCR script used: * https://github.com/jabberjabberjabber/LLMOCR/blob/main/llmoc... Model weights: MiniCPM-V-2_6-Q6_K_L.gguf, mmproj-MiniCPM-V-2_6-f16.gguf Inference: * https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/tag/v1.75.2
In Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models
Download koboldcpp and llama3.1 gguf weights, use it with the llama3 completions adapter. Edit the 'background.js' file in the extension and replace the openAI endpoint with 'http://your.local.ip.addr:5001/v1/chat/completions' Set anything you want as an API key. Now you have a truly local version. * https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases * https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-... * https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/blob/concedo/kcpp_ada...
In Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
In Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver
Sadly I can't try this because I'm on Windows or Linux. Was testing apps like this if anyone is interested: Best / Easy to use: - https://lmstudio.ai - https://msty.app - https://jan.ai More complex / Unpolished UI: - https://gpt4all.io - https://pinokio.computer - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-on-rtx/chat-with-rtx-generat... - https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp Misc: - https://faraday.dev (AI Characters): No UI / Command line (not for me): - https://ollama.com - https://privategpt.dev - https://serge.chat - https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile Pending to check: - https://recurse.chat Feel free to recommend more!
In Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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