Wait, What?!?! Run LLM Models Locally 👀


Run LLM Models Locally with Docker

Good morning! This week has been a year long. I'm pretty confident if I still had hair I would've lost it again.

All the best things come from down turns. Let's focus on the positives and get to work.

Quick hitters, let's go

Docker Model Runner

Docker has been really busy lately.

Meet Docker Model Runner:

  1. Run AI models with the tools you’re using today
  2. GPU acceleration on Apple Silicon
  3. Pull models as OCI Artifacts
  4. No extra setup, just dev

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A2A Beach front Avenue

Oh wait, wrong decade. You've maybe heard of the MCP Server craze recently trying to standardize how LLM's interface to applications. Well Google, just slipped in another standard called A2A to try to create a standards battle.
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Put the coffee on as this will be an interesting battle.

Google's new AI Overview is killing search

Killing them softly comes to mind but for some it is more drastic. The new Google AI Overview answers your google search question and pushes all the other results down. Good for Google, bad for anyone trying to rank on Google.

This week has been all about making ChatGPT Image action figures. So if you want to do it yourself check out the steps below:

That's it for this week. I'm off next week where I plan on deploying vacation mode for a few days!

Brian

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PS Do me a favor and send me feedback on what sucked, what was good, and I will post the best comments in next weeks Mailbag.

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