> **Note:** The DMG is not signed by Apple. After installing, run: `sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalAI.app`. See [#6268](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/issues/6268) for details.
### Containers (Docker, podman, ...)
> Already ran LocalAI before? Use `docker start -i local-ai` to restart an existing container.
#### CPU only:
```bash
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest
```
#### NVIDIA GPU:
```bash
# CUDA 13
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13
# CUDA 12
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 12, for AGX Orin and similar)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 13, for DGX Spark)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64-cuda-13
```
#### AMD GPU (ROCm):
```bash
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add=video localai/localai:latest-gpu-hipblas
```
#### Intel GPU (oneAPI):
```bash
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/dri/card1 --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel
```
#### Vulkan GPU:
```bash
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-gpu-vulkan
```
### Loading models
```bash
# From the model gallery (see available models with `local-ai models list` or at https://models.localai.io)
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# From Huggingface
local-ai run huggingface://TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF/phi-2.Q8_0.gguf
# From the Ollama OCI registry
local-ai run ollama://gemma:2b
# From a YAML config
local-ai run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/.../phi-2.yaml
# From a standard OCI registry (e.g., Docker Hub)
local-ai run oci://localai/phi-2:latest
```
> **Automatic Backend Detection**: LocalAI automatically detects your GPU capabilities and downloads the appropriate backend. For advanced options, see [GPU Acceleration](https://localai.io/features/gpu-acceleration/).
For more details, see the [Getting Started guide](https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/).
## Latest News
- **March 2026**: [Agent management](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8820), [New React UI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8772), [WebRTC](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8790), [MLX-distributed via P2P and RDMA](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8801), [MCP Apps, MCP Client-side](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8947)
- **February 2026**: [Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/6245), [ACE-Step 1.5 support](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8396)
- **January 2026**: **LocalAI 3.10.0** — Anthropic API support, Open Responses API, video & image generation (LTX-2), unified GPU backends, tool streaming, Moonshine, Pocket-TTS. [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v3.10.0)
- **December 2025**: [Dynamic Memory Resource reclaimer](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7583), [Automatic multi-GPU model fitting (llama.cpp)](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7584), [Vibevoice backend](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7494)
- **November 2025**: [Import models via URL](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7245), [Multiple chats and history](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/7325)
- **October 2025**: [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://localai.io/docs/features/mcp/) support for agentic capabilities
- **September 2025**: New Launcher for macOS and Linux, extended backend support for Mac and Nvidia L4T, MLX-Audio, WAN 2.2
- **August 2025**: MLX, MLX-VLM, Diffusers, llama.cpp now supported on Apple Silicon
- **July 2025**: All backends migrated outside the main binary — [lightweight, modular architecture](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v3.2.0)
For older news and full release notes, see [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases) and the [News page](https://localai.io/basics/news/).
## Features
- [Text generation](https://localai.io/features/text-generation/) (`llama.cpp`, `transformers`, `vllm` ... [and more](https://localai.io/model-compatibility/))
- [Text to Audio](https://localai.io/features/text-to-audio/)
- [Audio to Text](https://localai.io/features/audio-to-text/)
- [Image generation](https://localai.io/features/image-generation)
- [OpenAI-compatible tools API](https://localai.io/features/openai-functions/)
- [Realtime API](https://localai.io/features/openai-realtime/) (Speech-to-speech)
- [Embeddings generation](https://localai.io/features/embeddings/)
- [Constrained grammars](https://localai.io/features/constrained_grammars/)
- [Download models from Huggingface](https://localai.io/models/)
- [Vision API](https://localai.io/features/gpt-vision/)
- [Object Detection](https://localai.io/features/object-detection/)
- [Reranker API](https://localai.io/features/reranker/)
- [P2P Inferencing](https://localai.io/features/distribute/)
- [Distributed Mode](https://localai.io/features/distributed-mode/) — Horizontal scaling with PostgreSQL + NATS
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://localai.io/docs/features/mcp/)
- [Built-in Agents](https://localai.io/features/agents/) — Autonomous AI agents with tool use, RAG, skills, SSE streaming, and [Agent Hub](https://agenthub.localai.io)
- [Backend Gallery](https://localai.io/backends/) — Install/remove backends on the fly via OCI images
- Voice Activity Detection (Silero-VAD)
- Integrated WebUI
## Supported Backends & Acceleration
LocalAI supports **35+ backends** including llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for **NVIDIA** (CUDA 12/13), **AMD** (ROCm), **Intel** (oneAPI/SYCL), **Apple Silicon** (Metal), **Vulkan**, and **NVIDIA Jetson** (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the [Backend Gallery](https://localai.io/backends/).
See the full [Backend & Model Compatibility Table](https://localai.io/model-compatibility/) and [GPU Acceleration guide](https://localai.io/features/gpu-acceleration/).
## Resources
- [Documentation](https://localai.io/)
- [LLM fine-tuning guide](https://localai.io/docs/advanced/fine-tuning/)
- [Build from source](https://localai.io/basics/build/)
- [Kubernetes installation](https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/#run-localai-in-kubernetes)
- [Integrations & community projects](https://localai.io/docs/integrations/)
- [Media & blog posts](https://localai.io/basics/news/#media-blogs-social)
- [Examples](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI-examples)
## Autonomous Development Team
LocalAI is helped being maintained by a team of autonomous AI agents led by an AI Scrum Master.
- **Live Reports**: [reports.localai.io](http://reports.localai.io)
- **Project Board**: [Agent task tracking](https://github.com/users/mudler/projects/6)
- **Blog Post**: [Learn about the experiment](https://mudler.pm/posts/2026/02/28/a-call-to-open-source-maintainers-stop-babysitting-ai-how-i-built-a-100-local-autonomous-dev-team-to-maintain-localai-and-why-you-should-too/)
## Citation
If you utilize this repository, data in a downstream project, please consider citing it with:
```
@misc{localai,
author = {Ettore Di Giacinto},
title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative},
year = {2023},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}},
```
## Sponsors
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A huge thank you to our generous sponsors who support this project covering CI expenses, and our [Sponsor list](https://github.com/sponsors/mudler):