86a7f6c9fa
* ci: close the GC race + cascade-skip + darwin grpc gaps from v4.2.1
v4.2.1's backend.yml run (#25701862853) exposed three independent issues
on top of the singletons fix shipped in ea001995. Address all three plus
two related cleanups:
1. quay GC race in backend-merge-jobs-multiarch (12/37 merges failed with
"manifest not found"). Even after PR #9746 split multi/single-arch
merges, the multiarch matrix itself takes ~2h to drain at
max-parallel: 8, and the earliest per-arch digests (push-by-digest,
no tag) get reaped by quay's GC before the merge runs. The split
bounded the race for multiarch; it doesn't eliminate it. Anchor each
per-arch digest immediately to a tag in the internal ci-cache image
(`keepalive-<run_id><tag-suffix>-<platform-tag>`). Quay won't GC
tagged manifests. backend_merge.yml deletes the keepalive tags via
quay REST API after publishing the user-facing manifest list.
Cleanup is best-effort: if the quay token is not OAuth-scoped the
merge does NOT fail, the orphan tags just persist.
2. cascade-skip on backend-merge-jobs-singlearch. v4.2.1 had 2 failed
and 2 cancelled singlearch builds (out of 199); GHA's default
`needs:` semantics cascade-skipped the entire singlearch merge
matrix, so zero singleton tags were applied even though 197
singletons built successfully. Wrap the merge `if:` in
`!cancelled() && ...` for both multi and single arch in backend.yml
and backend_pr.yml so partial build failures publish the successful
tag-suffixes.
3. Darwin llama-cpp grpc-server build fails with `find_package(absl)`
not found. Same shape as the ccache/blake3/fmt/hiredis/xxhash/zstd
fix already in `Dependencies`: a brew cache hit restores
`/opt/homebrew/Cellar/grpc` so `brew install grpc` no-ops, but
abseil isn't in our Cellar cache list and never gets installed
alongside, leaving grpc's CMake unable to resolve it. Mirror the
`brew reinstall ccache` line with `brew reinstall grpc` to
re-validate grpc's full transitive dep closure on every cache-hit
run.
4. Move the four heaviest CUDA cpp builds back to bigger-runner. v4.2.1
wall-clock: -gpu-nvidia-cuda-12-llama-cpp 5h36m,
-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12-turboquant 6h05m,
-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13-llama-cpp 5h37m,
-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13-turboquant 6h05m. The cuda-12 turboquant and
cuda-13 turboquant entries are over GHA's 6h job timeout. Phase 5.3
of the free-tier migration (PR #9730) had explicitly flagged this
batch as 'highest-risk' with a per-entry revert path. All other
matrix entries (vulkan-llama-cpp ~47m, ROCm hipblas-llama-cpp ~2h,
intel sycl-f32 ~1h49m) stay on free-tier ubuntu-latest.
Verified locally: all six edited workflow YAMLs parse cleanly. Real
verification has to come from the next tag release run.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci: extract keepalive anchor + cleanup into .github/scripts/
The two inline shell blocks from the previous commit are long enough to
hurt readability of the workflow YAML and benefit from their own files
with self-contained docs. Move them to .github/scripts/:
anchor-digest-in-cache.sh backend_build.yml's keepalive anchor
cleanup-keepalive-tags.sh backend_merge.yml's best-effort cleanup
Workflow steps reduce to a single `run:` invocation each, with all the
parameter plumbing handled by env vars on the step. backend_merge.yml
also gains a sparse `actions/checkout@v6` step (sparse to .github/scripts
only) so the cleanup script is available on the runner — backend_build
already checks out for the docker build.
Net workflow diff: -36 lines across the two files. Script logic and
behavior are byte-identical to the inline version.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
---------
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
- Drop-in API compatibility — OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs APIs
- 36+ backends — llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper, diffusers, MLX...
- Any hardware — NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple Silicon, Vulkan, or CPU-only
- Multi-user ready — API key auth, user quotas, role-based access
- Built-in AI agents — autonomous agents with tool use, RAG, MCP, and skills
- Privacy-first — your data never leaves your infrastructure
Created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
📖 Documentation | 💬 Discord | 💻 Quickstart | 🖼️ Models | ❓FAQ
Guided tour
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08cbb692-57da-48f7-963d-2e7b43883c18
Click to see more!
User and auth
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/228fa9ad-81a3-4d43-bfb9-31557e14a36c
Agents
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6270b331-e21d-4087-a540-6290006b381a
Usage metrics per user
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbb03379-23b4-4e3d-bd26-d152f057007f
Fine-tuning and Quantization
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ba4ace9-d3df-4795-b7d4-b0b404ea71ee
WebRTC
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ed88e34c-fed3-4b83-8a67-4716a9feeb7b
Quickstart
macOS
Note: The DMG is not signed by Apple. After installing, run:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalAI.app. See #6268 for details.
Containers (Docker, podman, ...)
Already ran LocalAI before? Use
docker start -i local-aito restart an existing container.
CPU only:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest
NVIDIA GPU:
# 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):
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):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/dri/card1 --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel
Vulkan GPU:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-gpu-vulkan
Loading models
# 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.
For more details, see the Getting Started guide.
Latest News
- April 2026: Voice recognition, Face recognition, identification & liveness detection, Ollama API compatibility, Video generation in stable-diffusion.ggml, Backend versioning with auto-upgrade, Pin models & load-on-demand toggle, Universal model importer, new backends: sglang, ik-llama-cpp, TurboQuant, sam.cpp, Kokoros, qwen3tts.cpp, tinygrad multimodal
- March 2026: Agent management, New React UI, WebRTC, MLX-distributed via P2P and RDMA, MCP Apps, MCP Client-side
- February 2026: Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling, ACE-Step 1.5 support
- 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
- December 2025: Dynamic Memory Resource reclaimer, Automatic multi-GPU model fitting (llama.cpp), Vibevoice backend
- November 2025: Import models via URL, Multiple chats and history
- October 2025: Model Context Protocol (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
For older news and full release notes, see GitHub Releases and the News page.
Features
- Text generation (
llama.cpp,transformers,vllm... and more) - Text to Audio
- Audio to Text
- Image generation
- OpenAI-compatible tools API
- Realtime API (Speech-to-speech)
- Embeddings generation
- Constrained grammars
- Download models from Huggingface
- Vision API
- Object Detection
- Reranker API
- P2P Inferencing
- Distributed Mode — Horizontal scaling with PostgreSQL + NATS
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Built-in Agents — Autonomous AI agents with tool use, RAG, skills, SSE streaming, and Agent Hub
- Backend Gallery — Install/remove backends on the fly via OCI images
- Voice Activity Detection (Silero-VAD)
- Integrated WebUI
Supported Backends & Acceleration
LocalAI supports 36+ 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.
See the full Backend & Model Compatibility Table and GPU Acceleration guide.
Resources
- Documentation
- LLM fine-tuning guide
- Build from source
- Kubernetes installation
- Integrations & community projects
- Installation video walkthrough
- Media & blog posts
- Examples
Team
LocalAI is maintained by a small team of humans, together with the wider community of contributors.
- Ettore Di Giacinto — original author and project lead
- Richard Palethorpe — maintainer
A huge thank you to everyone who contributes code, reviews PRs, files issues, and helps users in Discord — LocalAI is a community-driven project and wouldn't exist without you. See the full contributors list.
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}},
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Support the project by becoming a backer or sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website.
A huge thank you to our generous sponsors who support this project covering CI expenses, and our Sponsor list:
Individual sponsors
A special thanks to individual sponsors, a full list is on GitHub and buymeacoffee. Special shout out to drikster80 for being generous. Thank you everyone!
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License
LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto mudler@localai.io
Acknowledgements
LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!
- llama.cpp
- https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
- https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
- https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
- https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
- https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- exo for the MLX distributed auto-parallel sharding implementation
Contributors
This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors!