Is there a reason why? Less funding? Web devs don't make the pages Firefox friendly? Since the user base is smaller, they just don't care?

opinion? 🥶

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15109471

This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.

Piss-broke nursing student, here.

The amount of reading I'm having to crank through on a weekly basis is pretty insane - I've been leaning heavily on text-to-speech software to knock the chapters out as fast as possible.

The best I've found so far - which isn't FOSS - is https://speechify.com/text-to-speech-online/ ...enough of it's free and accessible to get the job done, but it's got some pretty instrusive "buy me!" features built in, like if I'm listening to a large document and hit the pause button, I'm basically screwed because when I click play I get a prompt for "To continue listening, sign up for premium!"

Hoping to find better options if there are any, especially for ones that offer decent voice options. Some of them are impressively near-human sounding, while others sound like Microsoft Sam from like 1998; the quality and variety of voices make a big difference in retention for me (replaying a lecture with different voices is proving to be a pretty effective study habit).

More focused on the 'free' part vs the open source bit, but the latter would ofc be a good perk.

Know of any good options?

Thank you!!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/15579222

I've got revision, homework, programming, university application stuff, and some virtual training for work to juggle at the moment, so I feel I should get something to timetable it, to ensure that I do an even balance.

I run Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X 10.6, and (begrudgingly) iOS; and I also have access to Waydroid, Wine, and Darling.

Can anyone suggest some free and open-source software, preferably a web app or iOS app?

Hi all,

I've been looking casually for a few days now.

However, I have a long, 27 hour flight coming up, and I'd love to use that opportunity to do some planning.

Is anyone aware of an app like say freemind, that works on android?

I have a nice, large tablet, so real estate / interface is not an issue.

Thank you.

I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive

https://www.spacedrive.com/

...these companies are also trying to ban open-source development of AI

Hi guys! I'd like to know what teamviewer alternatives are out there these days. At this point it's my most insecure software, and I'd rather leave it, but I need something super simple to troubleshoot my mom's computer and things like that.

Thanks!

I know this has been discussed a lot but so far there is no TRUE cross platform ones that work and syncs for free.

The closest is Joplin but that’s laggy and bloated.

Anyone knows of an app that

• Syncs
• Works on iOS Windows and Linux
• Free or affordable

Some apps I tried

• Bear app - my main so far but my macbook is aging so I am planning on getting a linux notebook and I have a windows desktop at home. I managed to stay with this the longest but only because I have an iphone, ipad and mac. But now, I want to try windows or linux as well.

• Notion- laggy. Bonus: free with education account, (I have one and it works but I don’t like its interface and database nature. It’s not as simple to just type and go.

• OneNote- laggy. At least for me. And definitely not open sourced.

• Standard Notes- good features but very expensive for what it offers. Especially if you want to use sync.

• Obsidian- not technically Open source but very popular. The sync is expensive though and does not even give you storage. It utilizes the space already on your device. Feels like a rip off.

• Evernote- I like its price proposition better than Obsidian but its bloated. And I don’t like its ethics.

Anyone else has ideas? :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1894070

Welcome to the Llama-2 FOSAI & LLM Roundup Series!

(Summer 2023 Edition)

Hello everyone!

The wave of innovation I mentioned in our Llama-2 announcement is already on its way. The first tsunami of base models and configurations are being released as you read this post.

That being said, I'd like to take a moment to shoutout TheBloke, who is rapidly converting many of these models for the greater good of FOSS & FOSAI.

You can support TheBloke here.

• https://ko-fi.com/TheBlokeAI

Below you will find all of the latest Llama-2 models that are FOSAI friendly. This means they are commercially available, ready to use, and open for development. I will be continuing this series exclusively for Llama models. I have a feeling it will continue being a popular choice for quite some time. I will consider giving other foundational models a similar series if they garner enough support and consideration. For now, enjoy this new herd of Llamas!

All that you need to get started is capable hardware and a few moments setting up your inference platform (selected from any of your preferred software choices in the Lemmy Crash Course for Free Open-Source AI or FOSAI Nexus resource, which is also shared at the bottom of this post).

Keep reading to learn more about the exciting new models coming out of Llama-2!

8-bit System Requirements

Model	VRAM Used	Minimum Total VRAM	Card Examples	RAM/Swap to Load*
LLaMA-7B	9.2GB	10GB	3060 12GB, 3080 10GB	24 GB
LLaMA-13B	16.3GB	20GB	3090, 3090 Ti, 4090	32 GB
LLaMA-30B	36GB	40GB	A6000 48GB, A100 40GB	64 GB
LLaMA-65B	74GB	80GB	A100 80GB	128 GB

4-bit System Requirements

Model	Minimum Total VRAM	Card Examples	RAM/Swap to Load*
LLaMA-7B	6GB	GTX 1660, 2060, AMD 5700 XT, RTX 3050, 3060	6 GB
LLaMA-13B	10GB	AMD 6900 XT, RTX 2060 12GB, 3060 12GB, 3080, A2000	12 GB
LLaMA-30B	20GB	RTX 3080 20GB, A4500, A5000, 3090, 4090, 6000, Tesla V100	32 GB
LLaMA-65B	40GB	A100 40GB, 2x3090, 2x4090, A40, RTX A6000, 8000	64 GB

*System RAM (not VRAM), is utilized to initially load a model. You can use swap space if you do not have enough RAM to support your LLM.

The Bloke

One of the most popular and consistent developers releasing consumer-friendly versions of LLMs. These active conversions of trending models allow for many of us to run these GPTQ or GGML variants at home on our own PCs and hardware.

70B

• TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-chat-GPTQ

• TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-Chat-fp16

• TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-GPTQ

• TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-fp16

13B

• TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GPTQ

• TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML

• TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-GPTQ

• TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-GGML

• TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-fp16

7B

• TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GPTQ

• TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGML)

• TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-fp16

• TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-fp16

• TheBloke/Llama-2-7b-Chat-GPTQ

LLongMA

LLongMA-2, a suite of Llama-2 models, trained at 8k context length using linear positional interpolation scaling.

13B

• conceptofmind/LLongMA-2-13b

7B

• conceptofmind/LLongMA-2-7b

Also available from The Bloke in GPTQ and GGML formats:

7B

• TheBloke/LLongMA-2-7B-GPTQ

• TheBloke/LLongMA-2-7B-GGML

Puffin

The first commercially available language model released by Nous Research! Available in 13B parameters.

13B

• NousResearch/Redmond-Puffin-13B-GGML

• NousResearch/Redmond-Puffin-13B

Also available from The Bloke in GPTQ and GGML formats:

13B

• TheBloke/Redmond-Puffin-13B-GPTQ

• TheBloke/Redmond-Puffin-13B-GGML

Other Models

Leaving a section here for 'other' LLMs or fine tunings derivative of Llama-2 models.

7B

• georgesung/llama2_7b_chat_uncensored

Getting Started w/ FOSAI!

Have no idea where to begin with AI/LLMs? Try starting here with UnderstandGPT to learn the basics of LLMs before visiting our Lemmy Crash Course for Free Open-Source AI

If you're looking to explore more resources, see our FOSAI Nexus for a list of all the major FOSS/FOSAI in the space.

If you're looking to jump right in, visit some of the links below and stick to models that are <13B in parameter (unless you have the power and hardware to spare).

FOSAI Resources

Fediverse / FOSAI

• The Internet is Healing
• FOSAI Welcome Message
• FOSAI Crash Course
• FOSAI Nexus Resource Hub

LLM Leaderboards

• HF Open LLM Leaderboard
• LMSYS Chatbot Arena

LLM Search Tools

• LLM Explorer
• Open LLMs

GL, HF!

If you found anything about this post interesting - consider subscribing to !fosai@lemmy.world where I do my best to keep you in the know about the most important updates in free open-source artificial intelligence.

I will try to continue doing this series season by season, making this a living post for the rest of this summer. If I have missed a noteworthy model, don't hesitate to let me know in the comments so I can keep this resource up-to-date.

Thank you for reading! I hope you find what you're looking for. Be sure to subscribe and bookmark the main post if you want a quick one-stop shop for all of the new Llama-2 models that will be emerging the rest of this summer!

Welcome to the FOSAI Nexus!

(v0.0.1 - Summer 2023 Edition)

The goal of this knowledge nexus is to act as a link hub for software, applications, tools, and projects that are all FOSS (free open-source software) designed for AI (FOSAI).

If you haven't already, I recommend bookmarking this page (the native one on lemmy.world). It is designed to be periodically updated in new versions I release throughout the year. This is due to the rapid rate in which this field is advancing. Breakthroughs are happening weekly. I will try to keep up through the seasons while including links to each sequential nexus post - but it's best to bookmark this since it will be the start of the content series, giving you access to all future nexus posts as I release them.

If you see something here missing that should be added, let me know. I don't have visibility over everything. I would love your help making this nexus better. Like I said in my welcome message, I am no expert in this field, but I teach myself what I can to distill it in ways I find interesting to share with others.

I hope this helps you unblock your workflow or project and empowers you to explore the wonders of emerging artificial intelligence.

Consider subscribing to /c/FOSAI if you found any of this interesting. I do my best to make sure you stay in the know with the most important updates to all things free open-source AI.

Find Us On Lemmy!

!fosai@lemmy.world

Fediverse Resources

Lemmy

• Your Lemmy Crash Course to Free Open-Source AI

• !auai@programming.dev

Large Language Model Hub

Download Models

oobabooga

text-generation-webui - a big community favorite gradio web UI by oobabooga designed for running almost any free open-source and large language models downloaded off of HuggingFace which can be (but not limited to) models like LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, Pythia, OPT, and many others. Its goal is to become the AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui of text generation. It is highly compatible with many formats.

Exllama

A standalone Python/C++/CUDA implementation of Llama for use with 4-bit GPTQ weights, designed to be fast and memory-efficient on modern GPUs.

gpt4all

Open-source assistant-style large language models that run locally on your CPU. GPT4All is an ecosystem to train and deploy powerful and customized large language models that run locally on consumer-grade processors.

TavernAI

The original branch of software SillyTavern was forked from. This chat interface offers very similar functionalities but has less cross-client compatibilities with other chat and API interfaces (compared to SillyTavern).

SillyTavern

Developer-friendly, Multi-API (KoboldAI/CPP, Horde, NovelAI, Ooba, OpenAI+proxies, Poe, WindowAI(Claude!)), Horde SD, System TTS, WorldInfo (lorebooks), customizable UI, auto-translate, and more prompt options than you'd ever want or need. Optional Extras server for more SD/TTS options + ChromaDB/Summarize. Based on a fork of TavernAI 1.2.8

Koboldcpp

A self-contained distributable from Concedo that exposes llama.cpp function bindings, allowing it to be used via a simulated Kobold API endpoint. What does it mean? You get llama.cpp with a fancy UI, persistent stories, editing tools, save formats, memory, world info, author's note, characters, scenarios, and everything Kobold and Kobold Lite have to offer. In a tiny package around 20 MB in size, excluding model weights.

KoboldAI-Client

This is a browser-based front-end for AI-assisted writing with multiple local & remote AI models. It offers the standard array of tools, including Memory, Author's Note, World Info, Save & Load, adjustable AI settings, formatting options, and the ability to import existing AI Dungeon adventures. You can also turn on Adventure mode and play the game like AI Dungeon Unleashed.

h2oGPT

h2oGPT is a large language model (LLM) fine-tuning framework and chatbot UI with document(s) question-answer capabilities. Documents help to ground LLMs against hallucinations by providing them context relevant to the instruction. h2oGPT is fully permissive Apache V2 open-source project for 100% private and secure use of LLMs and document embeddings for document question-answer.

Image Diffusion Hub

Download Models

StableDiffusion

Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic and stylized images. This is the free alternative to MidJourney. It is rumored that MidJourney originates from a version of Stable Diffusion that is highly modified, tuned, then made proprietary.

SDXL (Stable Diffusion XL)

With Stable Diffusion XL, you can create descriptive images with shorter prompts and generate words within images. The model is a significant advancement in image generation capabilities, offering enhanced image composition and face generation that results in stunning visuals and realistic aesthetics.

ComfyUI

A powerful and modular stable diffusion GUI and backend. This new and powerful UI will let you design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart-based interface.

ControlNet

ControlNet is a neural network structure to control diffusion models by adding extra conditions. This is a very popular and powerful extension to add to AUTOMATIC111's stable-diffusion-webui.

TemporalKit

An all-in-one solution for adding Temporal Stability to a Stable Diffusion Render via an automatic1111 extension. You must install FFMPEG to path before running this.

EbSynth

Bring your paintings to animated life. This software can be used in conjunction with StableDiffusion + ControlNet + TemporalKit workflows.

WarpFusion

A TemporalKit alternative to produce video effects and animation styling.

Training & Education

LLMs

• Oobabooga's text-generation-webui

• Axolotl

• OpenAI Cookbook

• AemonAlgiz

Diffusers

• enigmatic_e

• Albert Bozesan

• ControlNet Tutorial

• Stable Diffusion + ControlNet + TemporalKit + EbSynth Workflow

• Stable Diffusion + Warp Fusion Workflow

Bonus Recommendations

AI Business Startup Kit

LLM Learning Material from the Developer of SuperHOT (kaiokendev):

Here are some resources to help with learning LLMs:

Andrej Karpathy’s GPT from scratch

Huggingface’s NLP Course

And for training specifically:

Alpaca LoRA

Vicuna

Community training guide

Of course for papers, I recommend reading anything on arXiv’s CS - Computation & Language that looks interesting to you: https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent.

Support Developers!

Please consider donating, subscribing to, or buying a coffee for any of the major community developers advancing Free Open-Source Artificial Intelligence.

If you're a developer in this space and would like to have your information added here (or changed), please don't hesitate to message me!

TheBloke

• https://www.patreon.com/TheBlokeAI

Oobabooga

• https://ko-fi.com/oobabooga

Eric Hartford

• https://erichartford.com/

kaiokendev

• https://kaiokendev.github.io/

Major FOSAI News & Breakthroughs

• (June 2023) MPT-30B: Raising the bar for open-source foundation models

• (May 2023) Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

• (May 2023) Introducing MPT-7B: A New Standard for Open-Source, Commercially Usable LLMs

• (March 2023) OpenAI Releases Chat-GPT 4

• (November 2022) OpenAI Releases Chat-GPT 3

• (December 2017) Attention Is All You Need

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/800062

Eric Hartford (a.k.a. faldore) has announced OpenOrca, an open-source dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models he plans to release alongside Microsoft's new open-source challenger, Orca.

You can support Eric and all of the hard work he has done for the open-source community by following his newsletter on his site here.

Eric, if you're reading this and would like to share a donation link - I would be more than happy to include it on this post and any future regarding your work. Shoot me a message anytime.

Eric Hartford's Announcement

Today I'm announcing OpenOrca.

https://erichartford.com/openorca

https://twitter.com/erhartford/status/1674214496301383680

The dataset is completed. ~1mil of GPT4 augmented flanv2 instructions and ~3.5mil of GPT3.5 augmented flanv2 instructions.

We are currently training on LLaMA-13b. We expect completion in about 2 weeks.

When training is complete, we will release the dataset and the model at the same time.

We are seeking GPU compute sponsors for various targets, please consult the blog post and reach out if interested.

Thank you to our sponsors!

https://chirper.ai

https://preemo.io

https://latitude.sh

A few more highlights from the full article, which you should read here when you have a chance.

We expect to release OpenOrca-LLaMA-13b in mid-July 2023. At that time we will publish our evaluation findings and the dataset.

We are currently seeking GPU compute sponsors for training OpenOrca on the following platforms:

Falcon 7b, 40b

LLaMA 7b, 13b, 33b, 65b

MPT-7b, 30b

Any other targets that get a sponsor. (RWKV, OpenLLaMA)

Dataset consists of:

• ~1 million of FLANv2 augmented with GPT-4 completions

• ~3.5 million of FLANv2 augmented with GPT-3.5 completions

If you found this post interesting, please consider subscribing to the /c/FOSAI community at !fosai@lemmy.world where I do my best to keep you in the know with the most important updates in free open-source artificial intelligence.

Thinking about getting into AI but don't know where to start? Believe it or not, now is a great time to start! You can download local models and have them running on your PC today (as long as you have a decent GPU). For more info on exactly how, check out Your Lemmy Crash Course to Free Open-Source AI