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Comment by SkyPuncher

6 months ago

Ollama - `brew install ollama`

llama.cpp - Read the docs, with loads of information and unclear use cases. Question if it has API compatibility and secondary features that a bunch of tools expect. Decide it's not worth your effort when `ollama` is already running by the time you've read the docs

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LorenDB  6 months ago

Additionally, Ollama makes model installation a single command. With llama.cpp, you have to download the raw models from Huggingface and handle storage for them yourself.

  • trissi1996  6 months ago

    Not really, llama.cpp can download for quite some time, not as elegant as ollama but:

        llama-server --model-url "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF/resolve/main/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-IQ4_XS.gguf"

    Will get you up and running in one single command.

    • yencabulator  6 months ago

      And now you need a server per model? Ollama loads models on-demand, and terminates them after idle, all accessible over the same HTTP API.