Llama 3 + Llama.cpp is the local AI Heaven

Author(s): Vatsal Saglani

Originally published on Towards AI.

Build a fully local (nano) DiagramGPT using Llama 3 8B and learn about inline function calling
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This is the third time in three weeks that I’m writing about developing AI-powered or GenAI-powered applications that work with local LLMs. Since, the release of Llama 3 and Phi-3-Mini I’ve been waiting for weekends to spend time building something cool locally without spending anything on API calls or GPU servers.

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Throughout the last week, I’ve been thinking about what to build with these local LLMs during this weekend. And I couldn’t come up with anything until Sunday afternoon. Though I had a lot of ideas I stopped myself thinking I wouldn’t be able to achieve them with these local LLMs. But then that’s the test, right?

Hence, I decided to develop a DiagramGPT using a 3-bit quantized Llama 3 8B LLM. As soon as I started writing code I realized it was too ambitious to create something like DiagramGPT in some hours. So I decided to narrow down the use case to generate cloud system architecture from a user description.

I already knew about the diagrams library in Python and was quite sure I could hack some code in a couple of hours and quickly publish my weekly LLM blog. But that wasn’t the case the Llama 3… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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