Release and source context
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney released llamafile, combining model inference code and weights in portable executables. The project used llama.cpp and Cosmopolitan to simplify local model installation across supported operating systems and architectures. [1]
Mozilla funded the collaboration with Justine Tunney. The release packaged model weights and inference software using llama.cpp and Cosmopolitan; it did not introduce a newly trained model. [1]
Sources
- Introducing llamafile
Mozilla · Nov 29, 2023
- llamafile is the new best way to run an LLM on your own computer
Simon Willison · Nov 29, 2023