LocalAI is compatible with the models supported by [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) supports also [GPT4ALL-J](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all) and [cerebras-GPT with ggml](https://huggingface.co/lxe/Cerebras-GPT-2.7B-Alpaca-SP-ggml).
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LocalAI will attempt to automatically load models which are not explicitly configured for a specific backend. You can specify the backend to use by configuring a model with a YAML file. See [the advanced section]({{%relref "advanced" %}}) for more details.
Depending on the model you are attempting to run might need more RAM or CPU resources. Check out also [here](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#memorydisk-requirements) for `gguf` based backends. `rwkv` is less expensive on resources.
Besides llama based models, LocalAI is compatible also with other architectures. The table below lists all the compatible models families and the associated binding repository.
| Backend and Bindings | Compatible models | Completion/Chat endpoint | Capability | Embeddings support | Token stream support | Acceleration |
| [bert](https://github.com/skeskinen/bert.cpp) ([binding](https://github.com/go-skynet/go-bert.cpp)) | bert | no | Embeddings only | yes | no | N/A |
| [whisper](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) | whisper | no | Audio | no | no | N/A |
| [stablediffusion](https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN) ([binding](https://github.com/mudler/go-stable-diffusion)) | stablediffusion | no | Image | no | no | N/A |
| [langchain-huggingface](https://github.com/tmc/langchaingo) | Any text generators available on HuggingFace through API | yes | GPT | no | no | N/A |
| [piper](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper) ([binding](https://github.com/mudler/go-piper)) | Any piper onnx model | no | Text to voice | no | no | N/A |
| [falcon](https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp/tree/c12b2d65f732a0d8846db2244e070f0f3e73505c) ([binding](https://github.com/mudler/go-ggllm.cpp)) | Falcon *** | yes | GPT | no | yes | CUDA |
| `huggingface-embeddings` [sentence-transformers](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers) | BERT | no | Embeddings only | yes | no | N/A |
| `bark` | bark | no | Audio generation | no | no | yes |
Note: any backend name listed above can be used in the `backend` field of the model configuration file (See [the advanced section]({{%relref "advanced" %}})).
- \* 7b ONLY
- ** doesn't seem to be accurate
- *** 7b and 40b with the `ggccv` format, for instance: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-40B-GGML
Tested with:
- [X] Automatically by CI with OpenLLAMA and GPT4ALL.
- [X] [HuggingFace Inference](https://huggingface.co/inference-api) models available through API
- [X] Falcon
Note: You might need to convert some models from older models to the new format, for indications, see [the README in llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#using-gpt4all) for instance to run `gpt4all`.
