The end cometh! After 10 years, Microsoft is ending regular support for Microsoft Windows 10 in October. If you’re still using Windows 10 at home or in your organization, it’s time to start planning your next steps. In this blog, we will review some...
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It has been a while since we looked at running large language models (LLMs) locally. In AI things move fast, and while on the one hand, the foundational aspects haven’t changed much, there has been a ton of change with LLMs themselves. We have seen...
By now most VMware customers are aware of the Broadcom acquisition of the popular computer virtualization software. The purchase has created a lot of confusion and uncertainty in an area of IT often counted upon for predictability, and stability. IT...
Local LLMs Part 3 – Linux
In part I and part II of this series we looked at setting up local LLMs running on Apple MacOS and Microsoft Windows respectively. This post is going to dig into using Linux to run an LLM. In several respects Linux is different from both MacOS and...
Local LLMs Part 2 – Microsoft Windows
In part one of this series, we looked at running the Meta LLAMA 2 AI large language model (LLM) on Apple Silicon base computers directly. This allows a ChatGPT like AI assistant to run without an Internet connection, but much more importantly to...