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Hi all, i am quite an old fart, so i just recently got excited about self hosting an AI, some LLM...

What i want to do is:

  • chat with it
  • eventually integrate it into other services, where needed

I read about OLLAMA, but it's all unclear to me.

Where do i start, preferably with containers (but "bare metal") is also fine?

(i already have a linux server rig with all the good stuff on it, from immich to forjeio to the arrs and more, reverse proxy, Wireguard and the works, i am looking for input on AI/LLM, what to self host and such, not general selfhosting hints)

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[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you already know what you need to know to host Ollama in a Docker container. Ollama is an LLM "engine" - you can interact with LLM models via a CLI or you can integrate them into other services via an API.

To have a web page chat like ChatGPT or others, I installed OpenWebU. I love it! A friend of mine likes LMStudio, which i think is a desktop app, but I don't know anything about it.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

+1 LM Studio, so easy to use and so powerful