AIKit is a comprehensive platform to quickly get started to host, deploy, build and fine-tune large language models (LLMs).

AIKit offers two main capabilities:

• Inference: AIKit uses LocalAI, which supports a wide range of inference capabilities and formats. LocalAI provides a drop-in replacement REST API that is OpenAI API compatible, so you can use any OpenAI API compatible client, such as Kubectl AI, Chatbot-UI and many more, to send requests to open LLMs!

• Fine-Tuning: AIKit offers an extensible fine-tuning interface. It supports Unsloth for fast, memory efficient, and easy fine-tuning experience.

👉 For full documentation, please see AIKit website!

• 🐳 No GPU, Internet access or additional tools needed except for Docker!
• 🤏 Minimal image size, resulting in less vulnerabilities and smaller attack surface with a custom distroless-based image
• 🎵 Fine-tune support
• 🚀 Easy to use declarative configuration for inference and fine-tuning
• ✨ OpenAI API compatible to use with any OpenAI API compatible client
• 📸 Multi-modal model support
• 🖼️ Image generation support
• 🦙 Support for GGUF (llama), GPTQ or EXL2 (exllama2), and GGML (llama-ggml) and Mamba models
• 🚢 Kubernetes deployment ready
• 📦 Supports multiple models with a single image
• 🖥️ Supports AMD64 and ARM64 CPUs and GPU-accelerated inferencing with NVIDIA GPUs
• 🔐 Ensure supply chain security with SBOMs, Provenance attestations, and signed images
• 🌈 Supports air-gapped environments with self-hosted, local, or any remote container registries to store model images for inference on the edge.

You can get started with AIKit quickly on your local machine without a GPU!

docker run -d --rm -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/sozercan/llama3.1:8b

After running this, navigate to http://localhost:8080/chat to access the WebUI!

AIKit provides an OpenAI API compatible endpoint, so you can use any OpenAI API compatible client to send requests to open LLMs!

curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "model": "llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "explain kubernetes in a sentence"}]
  }'

Output should be similar to:

{
  // ...
    "model": "llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
    "choices": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "finish_reason": "stop",
            "message": {
                "role": "assistant",
                "content": "Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of applications and services, allowing developers to focus on writing code rather than managing infrastructure."
            }
        }
    ],
  // ...
}

That's it! 🎉 API is OpenAI compatible so this is a drop-in replacement for any OpenAI API compatible client.

AIKit comes with pre-made models that you can use out-of-the-box!

If it doesn't include a specific model, you can always create your own images, and host in a container registry of your choice!

👉 For more information and how to fine tune models or create your own images, please see AIKit website!