Exllamav2: Inference library for running LLMs locally on consumer-class GPUs
Why this is interesting: To my knowledge, this is the first time you are able to run the largest Llama, at competitive speed, on a consumer GPU (or something like A40).On many tasks, fine-tuned Llama can outperform GPT-3.5-turbo or even GPT-4, but with a naive approach to serving (like HuggingFace + FastAPI), you will have hard time beating the cost of GPT-3.5-turbo even with the smaller Llama models, especially if your utilization is low.