llamafile: Local copy of ChatGPT and GPT-4 Vision?

Imagine having an executable binary that encapsulates the weights of any LLM, allowing you to run it consistently across operating systems without any kind of overhead.

This would be a ”build once anywhere, run anywhere” moment for AI engineers, wouldn’t it?

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That’s exactly why Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney released llamafile, which enables efficient distribution and use of LLMs.

llamafile is a shell script that launches itself and runs inference on embedded weights in milliseconds without needing to be copied or installed.

llamafile’s conversion of a set of LLM weights into a binary executable in the GGUF format makes it possible to run LLMs on six different operating systems without the need for installation.

That’s very, very cool!

llamafile achieves that by integrating two open-source projects:

• llama.cpp, for inference of LLaMA model in pure C/C++
• Cosmopolitan Libc, for the compilation and execution of C programs across diverse platforms

Although llamafile conveniently offers pre-compiled binaries for Llava-v1.5–7b, Mistral 7b Instruct, and WizardCoder-Python-13b, you can actually any model compiled in the GGUF format.