Ominous Industries

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. 

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