alt Hacker NewsDont want to crash the party here, but I am still sceptic about all those on-premise-llm-approaches.
I think we strongly need something like that (shameless plug, I tried to build something around bitNet for the same reason: https://github.com/nickyreinert/bitNetRTR).
But at the end, all aproaches I saw, however genius they are: the actual results are always a mess. It's a better chat buddy, nothing else. It's e.g. far away from an decent coding assistants. I fine tuned Gemma with domain specific knowledge. Running it on a 16GB VRM GForce. Even then it's okai'sh but far way from a mind blowing experience. I ran some of the promised open source model on my 36GB MBPro M3, in Pi, Hermes, Continue. Can't compare the results to what Claude or Codex are offering.
You need at least something that's far away from consumer hardware, like those 7k'ish GForce machines with 96GB VRAM to get an idea of a good competitive model.
But... please, proof me wrong! =)
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This is an odd comment: the project is right there for you to use, so just try it and see if it holds up to the claims? Then you can comment about the fact that it either doesn't hold up, with numbers to back that up, or on how awesome it is because it works =)
Gemini uses MoE and context caching, which is a similar approach.
You are not really accessing the biggest frontier model every time, and you're not really doing an end-to-end LLM request on each prompt.
I would go so far to say frontier models have peaked and improvements from here come from clever (or very elaborate) harnessing. "LLLMHs" - Large Large Language Model Harnessing !