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llama.cpp

AI that lives on your computer. Open-source, private & always local.

Run frontier AI entirely on your machine. No API keys, no telemetry, no limits. Own your models and conversation data.

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
Prefer Brew or Winget? Package managers · Rather build from source? Follow instructions

Pair it with a local coding agent.

Run llama serve, install the pi-llama plugin and launch Pi. It will automatically discover your local model. No config, no API keys. Files stay on your machine, requests never leave it.

# 1. Serve a model
llama serve

# 2. Install the pi-llama plugin
pi install git:github.com/huggingface/pi-llama

# 3. Run Pi, everything is set
pi
Pi

Optimized for any hardware.

From your laptop to a cluster, llama.cpp runs on whatever you have. Same binary, same models, same hand-tuned kernels for every GPU and CPU.

Apple Silicon
M Ultra
RTX 5090
CPU
Jetson
RTX 4090
M Pro
M Max
DGX Spark
Radeon RX
Intel Arc
RTX 3090

Run your first model

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