MetaAI have done it again… Dropping llama3.1 under the (mostly) open source license and I have been putting it through its paces and benchmarking to find out how well it performs to models preiously tested: Testing Llama3 With LM Studio. Previously we took a look at llama3 in LM Studio which has made self hosted LLMs that rival paid services like ChatGPT and Claude possible; this time we are taking a look at llama through the lend of GPT4All. ...
MetaAI have just introduced Llama 3 to the world and the open source community is already putting it through its paces and pushing to find the limits of what it can produce. One fantastic tool which has made self hosted LLMs that rival paid services like ChatGPT and Claude possible is LM Studio. With version 0.2.20 they bough about support for llama 3 along with a GGUF quantized 8 billion parameter version of the model. ...
As I write this, my computer’s Nvidia RTX GPU is busy converting watts into fictional images of robots and given the current cost of electricity, I am asking myself if the results it is producing are worth the resources required to produce them. In the article I hope to demonstrate how I am using AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui and Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet to generate some borderline “art”. If you are looking to skip ahead to certain section, you can jump ahead using the table of contents above. ...