XDA Developers on MSN

I replaced Google Home and Alexa+ with a local voice assistant after realizing cloud AI isn't worth the privacy trade-off

Google Home and Alexa+ pushed me to abandon cloud voice assistants ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I quantized a local LLM on my home server and ditched cloud AI for smart home control entirely

My Proxmox node now powers my entire smart home without touching a single cloud service ...
GIGAZINE

``llama.cpp'', which made Meta's large-scale language model ``LLaMA'' executable on a Mac with M1, can be executed with less than 6 GB of memory usage by updating

LLaMA is a large-scale language model published by Meta AI Research, Meta's AI research organization. The number of parameters, which indicates the size of a large-scale language model, is 7 billion ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Scaling llama.cpp On Neoverse N2: Solving Cross-NUMA Performance Issues

This blog post explains the cross-NUMA memory access issue that occurs when you run llama.cpp in Neoverse. It also introduces a proof-of-concept patch that addresses this issue and can provide up to a ...