I actually have a 3B running on my Home Assistant, an 8th gen NUC with 16G of RAM I got for $175. It's quite snappy... if not terribly correct about everything. It's capable of running an 8B but then the response time on the Voice PE is too slow to suit me (goes from 3 seconds to about 8 seconds).

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What model are you running?

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Qwen 2.5.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can it be used for agentic workflows or just simple Q and A?

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's why I'm running it. Couldn't get reminders to work with all the possible permutations of time notation without an LLM. It still doesn't fully work properly but it's good enough and it has the side effect that it can answer any question you ask, for better or for worse. It gets simple things right more than half the time I'd say.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the work being done by groups like GLM will allow something smarter to run on this hardware within the next year or so.