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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61139432

I seriously can't believe how much progress he's made for the FOSS community. He actually might take a bite out of the big 3's profits with this

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 40 points 1 day ago (26 children)

How many GPUs do you even need to have a usable, self-hosted AI? It looks like he has 6 on his rig. Probably each costs 2k or something. That's not peanuts. I have a 12GB VRAM card. It probably can't generate anything in any meaningful amount of time. Which brings me to the question: who is this for?

Regardless, impressive what he vibe-coded there.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they've got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh nice. Does that depend on just the model or are there other requirements like CUDA or something?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it's a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it's a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It's new enough that there aren't any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

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