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24 alternatives to Dalai Alpaca – Instant Alpaca web UI and API for windows, Linux and Mac

Dalai Alpaca is here! https://t.co/lm6Kx7QExs Now you can run the Alpaca LLM on your computer (Mac, Windows, Linux) with just ONE command! Best of all, all you need is just around 4.2GB of disk space! Just run this:

Dalai Alpaca is a web interface and API tool that brings the Alpaca language model to Windows, Linux, and Mac computers. Designed for developers, it provides an instant way to run and interact with Alpaca locally… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dalai Alpaca – Instant Alpaca web UI and API for windows, Linux and Mac launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM . Contribute to antimatter15/alpaca.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN A few folks and I have been working on this project for a couple weeks now. After previously working on the Docker project for a number of years (both on the container runtime and image registry side), the recent rise in open source language models made us think something similar needed to exist for large language models too. While not exactly the same as running linux containers, running LLMs shares quite a few of the same challenges. There are "base layers" (e.g. models like Llama 2), specific configuration to run correctly (parameters, temperature, context window sizes etc). There's…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ollama▲235

    The easiest way to run large language models locally

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been playing around with https://github.com/zphang/minimal-llama/ and https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/blob/main/finetune.py, and wanted to create a simple UI where you can just paste text, tweak the parameters, and finetune the model quickly using a modern GPU. To prepare the data, simply separate your text with two blank lines. There's an inference tab, so you can test how the tuned model behaves. This is my first foray into the world of LLM finetuning, Python, Torch, Transformers, LoRA, PEFT, and Gradio. Enjoy!

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Unlimited access to real-time US stock market data

    2021 · alpaca.markets · its alternatives →

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    A CLI for stock trading with Alpaca written in Go

    2020 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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    Free real-time stock market data API

    2020 · alpaca.markets · its alternatives →

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    ChatLLaMA is an experimental chatbot interface for interacting with variants of Facebook's LLaMA. Currently, we support the 7 billion parameter variant that was fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset. This early versions isn't as conversational as we'd like, but over the next week or so, we're planning on adding support for the 30 billion parameter variant, another variant fine-tuned on LAION's OpenAssistant dataset and more as we explore what this model is capable of. If you want deploy your own instance is the model powering the chatbot and build something similar we've open sourced the Truss…

    2023 · chatllama.baseten.co · its alternatives →

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    Commission-free API to trade & invest for as little as $1

    2021 · alpaca.markets · its alternatives →

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    Launch your own commission-free trading app

    2021 · alpaca.markets · its alternatives →

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    Simple REST API for commission-free stock trading

    2018 · alpaca.markets · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver.…

    2024 · recurse.chat · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm just sharing a project I've been working on during the LLM Efficiency Challenge - you can now finetune Llama with QLoRA 5x faster than Huggingface's original implementation on your own local GPU. Some highlights: 1. Manual autograd engine - hand derived backprop steps. 2. QLoRA / LoRA 80% faster, 50% less memory. 3. All kernels written in OpenAI's Triton language. 4. 0% loss in accuracy - no approximation methods - all exact. 5. No change of hardware necessary. Supports NVIDIA GPUs since 2018+. CUDA 7.5+. 6. Flash Attention support via Xformers. 7. Supports 4bit and 16bit…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to chat with local AI

    2025 · ollama.com · its alternatives →

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    I spent the last few days building out a nicer ChatGPT-like interface to use Mistral 7B and Llama 3 fully within a browser (no deps and installs). I’ve used the WebLLM project by MLC AI for a while to interact with LLMs in the browser when handling sensitive data but I found their UI quite lacking for serious use so I built a much better interface around WebLLM. I’ve been using it as a therapist and coach. And it’s wonderful knowing that my personal information never leaves my local computer. Should work on Desktop with Chrome or Edge. Other browsers are adding WebGPU support as well - see…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    High-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B parameter GPT model - shawwn/llama-dl

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy to use crypto trading API

    2021 · alpaca.markets · its alternatives →

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    Ava PLS▲94

    Desktop app for running LLMs locally

    2023 · avapls.com · its alternatives →

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    Apollo AI▲280

    Run local models like Llama on iOS

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Chat with your favourite LLaMA models right on your Mac

    2023 · llamachat.app · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I've been working on this project for a while, and it has been in an "open" beta for some time. I finally believe it's ready for its first release. I hope you like it. Here are some potential questions that may arise: 1. How does it compare to LM Studio? It's likely that if you're already using LM Studio, you'll continue to do so. This project is designed to be more user-friendly. 2. Is it open-source? No, it is not. 3. Does it use any open-source libraries? Yes, it uses llama.cpp and a few others, as indicated in the license information included with the application. 4. Why is not…

    2023 · avapls.com · its alternatives →

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    ModelHub▲317

    The missing menu bar app for local LLMs on Mac.

    May 2026 · studio.consciousengines.com · its alternatives →

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    Llama 2▲263

    The next generation of Meta's open source LLM

    2023 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →

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