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I have experience in running servers, but I would like to know if it's possible to do it, I just need a GPT 3.5 like private LLM running.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's doable. Stick to the 7b models and it should work for the most part, but don't expect anything remotely approaching what might be called reasonable performance. It's going to be slow. But it can work.

To get a somewhat usable experience you kinda need an Nvidia graphics card or an AI accelerator.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Intel Arc also works surprisingly fine and consistently for ML if you use llama.cpp for LLMs or Automatic for stable diffusion, it's definitely much closer to Nvidia in terms of usability than it is to AMD

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're Ryzen processors with "AI" accelerators, so an LLM can definitely run on hardware on one of those. Other options are available, like lower powered ARM chipsets (RK3588-based boards) with accelerators that might have half the performance but are far cheaper to run, should be enough for a basic LLM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't know of any project that already supports that AI processor. You'd still be using the CPU and GPU at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look into ollama. It shouldn't be an issue if you stick to 7b parameter models

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I did see something related to what you mentioned and I was quite interested. What about quantized models?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quantized with more parameters is generally better than floating point with fewer parameters. If you can squeeze a 14b parameter model down to a 4-bit int quantization it'll still generally outperform a 16-bit Floating Point 7b parameter equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't have any experience with them honestly so I can't help you there

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

Appreciate you 👍👍