6 alternatives to ColossalAI

hpcaitech/colossalai — Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible (41,428 stars, Apache-2.0, ai, infra, dev-tools).

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The alternatives in detail

• simonw/llm
  Access large language models from the command-line
  score 8.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 12,673 stars · 16 components · search them
• mcgill-nlp/llm2vec
  Code for 'LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders'
  score 7.6/10 · MIT permissive · 1,728 stars · 20 components · search them
• tokenrhythm/opensquilla
  OpenSquilla — Token-Efficient AI Agent with same budget, higher intelligence density
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,116 stars · 2,376 components · search them
• optimalscale/lmflow
  An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models. Large Models for All.
  score 5.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,482 stars · 138 components · search them
• trymirai/uzu
  A high-performance inference engine for AI models
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 3,223 stars · 1,110 components · search them
• nousresearch/ollama
  Get up and running with Llama 2, Mistral, and other large language models locally.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3 stars · 65 components · search them

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