I am a teacher and I have a LOT of different literature material that I wish to study, and play around with.
I wish to have a self-hosted and reasonably smart LLM into which I can feed all the textual material I have generated over the years. I would be interested to see if this model can answer some of my subjective course questions that I have set over my exams, or write small paragraphs about the topic I teach.
In terms of hardware, I have an old Lenovo laptop with an NVIDIA graphics card.
P.S: I am not technically very experienced. I run Linux and can do very basic stuff. Never self hosted anything other than LibreTranslate and a pihole!
There’s a few.
Very easy if you set it up with Docker.
Best is probably just ollama and use danswer as a frontend. Danswer will do all the RAG stuff for you. Like managing / uploading documents and so on
Ollama is becoming the standard selfnhosted LLM. And you can add any models you want / can fit.
https://ollama.com/blog/ollama-is-now-available-as-an-official-docker-image
https://docs.danswer.dev/quickstart