Re:I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
by k__ on Saturday August 09, 2025 @06:31AM
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Half-OT: Anything useful that runs reasonably fast on a regular Intel CPU/GPU?
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Re:I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
by oblio on Saturday August 09, 2025 @07:24AM
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I did a bunch of research and basically no. Unless you can work with sending a request in the evening and getting the result in the morning.
And you'd need a lot of regular RAM because otherwise you start swapping at which point I think response times end up in days.
This tech is in the Wild West days, for it to be usable by the average person on consumer hardware, I think we'll need to be in 2030+.
Re:I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
by ethan_smith on Saturday August 09, 2025 @12:49PM
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For Intel CPUs, Phi-2 (2.7B) and TinyLlama (1.1B) run reasonably well using llama.cpp with 4-bit quantization. GGUF models with INT4 quantization typically need ~2GB RAM per billion parameters, so even older machines can handle smaller models.
Re:I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
by akawry on Sunday August 10, 2025 @09:23AM
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Take a look at ik_llama.cpp: https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp
CPU performance is much better than mainline llama, as well as having more quantization types available