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Open-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% private.

131 mentions on Hacker News by 98 people: 7 stories, 124 comments · first 2023-02-26 · latest 2025-10-26

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  1. …chatGPT (3.5) for general tasks, but can be configured to be quite good at very specific things. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI https://github.com/gitmylo/audio-webui
  2. …nowhere near the level of GPT-4. It's close enough to GPT 3.5 though, you should try it out! [1]: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  3. I've tried running some using https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui on my arch box with an AMD gpu and it worked well and was really handy, until I tried yesterday and I get some python error no matter what I do, with the same…
  4. …it will be worth it. I would highly recommend looking into the text-generation-webui project ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ). It has a one-click installer and very comprehensive guides for getting models running…
    comment by mattstir · 2023-07-26 · in Guide to running Llama 2 locally
  5. …got same answers. I even got better answers with ooba, since the demo cuts text early Ooobabooga: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui Model: TheBloke_Llama-2-70B-chat-GPTQ from https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-chat…
    comment by eurekin · 2023-07-25 · in Guide to running Llama 2 locally
  6. …as always, is the oogabooga text generation webUI, which supports all of the relevant backends: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by Der_Einzige · 2023-07-25 · in Guide to running Llama 2 locally
  7. …in case people come here because the title sounds interesting, check out text-generation-webui ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ). It's a better solution to local LLMs than running in a Jupyter Notebook.
  8. Simon's article didn't show local usage. Use one of the one-click installers linked in the README of https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui and you're set. Note that just in case you have the hardware necessary to run the…
  9. The real gold standard is https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui Which includes the llama.cpp backend, and a lot more. Unfortunately, despite claiming to be the "Automatic1111" of text generation, it doesn't support any of the…
  10. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui https://github.com/bentoml/OpenLLM https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/top/?t=month
  11. …(falcon) For interactive work (art/chat/research/playing around), things like: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... (llama) (Also - they just added a decent chat server built into llama.cpp the project) https:/
  12. There's the OpenedAI-API extension for text-generation-webui: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/tree/main...
    comment by fortydegrees · 2023-06-19 · in OpenLLM
  13. …for each of the GGML models, which are best if you want to host using CPU/RAM (no video card). [0] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... [1] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke
  14. …There's a web gui for llama.cpp that is really straightforward to set up for huggingface models: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  15. …it is to use text-generation-webui[1] and 33B 4-bit quantized GGML model from TheBloke[2]. [1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui [2] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/guanaco-33B-GGML
  16. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/ Works on all platforms, but runs much better on Linux. Running this in Docker on my 2080Ti, can barely fit 13B-4bit models into 11G of VRAM, but it works fine, produces around 10-15…
  17. …I haven't had much of my time available for this recently. My recommendation would be to start with https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui You will find almost everything you need to know there and on 4chan.org/g/catalog -…
  18. …super confusing is people on r/LocalLLaMA often just refer too it as "ooba". The actual repo is https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui and you notice that oobabooga is actually the username, but a lot of non-technical people…
  19. If you're running the text-generation-webui ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ) it has the ability to train LoRAs. It'll require a beefy GPU but I've seen some fun examples like someone training a LoRA on Skyrim books.
  20. These aren't for ChatGPT, but work on LLaMA, Vicuna, etc. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... https://github.com/zetavg/LLaMA-LoRA-Tuner https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-llmstudio https://github.com/rhulha/lora
  21. …supporting ooba's api which would give you a lot of support for different things really quickly. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/
  22. I'm not sure how this extension compares with https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/tree/main...
  23. …good place to dig for prompt structures may be the 'text-generation-webui' commit log. For example https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/commit/33...
    comment by rain1 · 2023-05-14 · in Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card
  24. …it an AI girlfriend isnt even hiding it. Secondly if you want an AI girlfriend just use oobabooga ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ) and prompt your own AI girlfriend. I feel no remorse for those that pay a dollar per…
    comment by rig777 · 2023-05-13 · in An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week
  25. …get an acceptable performance without the headaches right now, if you can afford the price. Install https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui , update pytorch and llamacpp-python, and you should be able to run pretty much all…
  26. …current generation of open models (OpenAssistant w/ 30B LLaMa) [0]: https://mlc.ai/web-llm/ [1]: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui [2]: https://huggingface.co/chat
  27. …until they reach a good loss(the model works), that's why quality data is important. You might try https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui they have a pretty easy setup config. Again, you'll need a lot of RAM and a good CPU for…
    comment by examplary_cable · 2023-05-06 · in Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama
  28. Run text-generation-webui with llama.cpp: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  29. …with checkpoints, various extensions including multimodal and experimental long-term memory etc. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  30. Not for training with the webui: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/11... It does seem to work using alpca-lora directly, though.
  31. This really ought to mention https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui , which was the first popular UI for LLaMA, and remains one for anyone who runs it on GPU. It is also where GPTQ 4-bit quantization was first enabled in a…
  32. …could be used by an extension your IDE uses. But I'm not sure if an extension like that exists. [0] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  33. …The Oobabooga web interface aims to become the standard interface for chat models: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui I don't see any indication that OpenLLaMa will run on either of those without modification. But one of…
    comment by loudmax · 2023-05-03 · in OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
  34. …unversioned and mere weeks after being written simply doesn't work as a direct consequence . E.g: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/ee68... Take this line: pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio Which version of…
    comment by jiggawatts · 2023-04-30 · in A brief history of LLaMA models
  35. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... You need to enable the extensions. I only did voice out locally with silero_tts, it also supports voice out with eleven labs api. Voice input is via whisper tts.
    comment by IronWolve · 2023-04-25 · in QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B
  36. …it has voice in/out, graphics in/out, memory plugin, api, plugins, etc, all running locally. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by IronWolve · 2023-04-25 · in QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B
  37. Ah. Well you can build a dockerfile (with the 4 bit triton repo) locally here, then deploy it: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui#alternati... I havent explored beyond that. Actually there are tons of quantizatons on…
  38. …llama is messy because there are essentially 3 variants. - 4 bit cuda - 4 bit triton - 4 bit cpu https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... Models should be quantized specifically for each, and both branches are under…
  39. This plus the the vicuna models is probably as close as you can get in the near term. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  40. …as well, but maybe I'll see if the extra cycles helps). I'm giving 30B a try on my GPU now with https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/LLaM... and if it's not good then will give layer offloading with 65B a try and see if…
  41. The default loader doesn't seem to let you load quantized models but if you use something like https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui you can 1) use the model with `--load-in-8bit` which halves the memory (runs on my 24GB…
  42. …python bindings for llama.cpp and the text-generation-webui already uses them for local inference. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/llam... "pip install llamacpp" or https://github.com/thomasantony/llamacpp-python
    comment by MacsHeadroom · 2023-04-04 · in An LLM playground you can run on your laptop
  43. As an alternative for purely local LLMs, I've been having fun with this setup: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  44. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  45. …the discussion of that second paper here is interesting, though it doesn't have its own benchmarks: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/17...
  46. …the same result. If you want to run larger Alpaca models on a low VRAM GPU, try FlexGen. I think https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/ is one of the easier ways to get that going.
  47. text-generation-webui ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui )
  48. I was mostly referring to this project, which has some 1-click installers: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui#alternati... Though I have not tried those 1-click installers, instead I have been manually running it. That…
  49. OK, looks like the "LLM retard guide" is "run this installer": https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/releases/... That's the only thing that worked for me, but it was so easy and worked instantly. It's a set of…
  50. Best way to mess around with FlexGen and LLMs on local hardware in general is https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui