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  • Testing and Installation of the Apollo Video LLM Models

    Testing and Installation of the Apollo Video LLM Models

    Fortunately for those of us interested in experimenting with Apollo, the open source community has once again come in clutch, with the original model files having been re-uploaded to huggingface by a kind individual. In addition to that, someone else managed to modify the gradio app from the original HF repo and shared the code to run it locally, on github. Thanks to the efforts of these individuals, we can still download and run Apollo locally, which the remainder of this article will be devoted to. 

  • LLM Performance Test Between Raspberry Pi 5 and Orange Pi 5

    LLM Performance Test Between Raspberry Pi 5 and Orange Pi 5

    I am very interested in running LLMs on more efficient hardware (at least, in terms of power consumption). Given this, I have always enjoyed testing the latest SBC performance with whatever small models are currently the most popular. I recently...

  • CogVideoX 2B & 5B Models Fully Tested! Local AI Video Gen Just Got Way Better!

    CogVideoX 2B & 5B Models Fully Tested! Local AI Video Gen Just Got Way Better!

    I recently stumbled upon a post on the r/localllama subreddit that mentioned the CogVideoX text to video generation models. While CogVideo itself has been around for a very long time (speaking in terms of the Gen AI space), the repository...

  • Testing Flux.1-Dev Locally With A NVIDIA 3090TI & SwarmUI

    Testing Flux.1-Dev Locally With A NVIDIA 3090TI & SwarmUI

    When I first heard about the release of a new image model, I didn't think too much of it. Though I was hearing more and more about how impressed people were, it took a bit more of a push for...

  • Making Runescape GPT Using NanoGPT - Training A Model From Scratch

    Making Runescape GPT Using NanoGPT - Training A Model From Scratch

    I have been wanting to get some more experience with the 'Core' concepts of language models, but I wasn't entirely sure where to begin. Thanks to a Reddit mention of the nanogpt repository on GitHub, I was able to gain...

  • Bringing Someone Back with AI and Robotics

    Bringing Someone Back with AI and Robotics

    Last May, I had the idea to digitally bring back the memory of a lost loved one, in this case, my late grandfather. I went through with it using a prototype of the Ominous Industries R1 robot, which I sell...