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For anyone looking for a simple alternative for running local models beyond just text, Nexa AI has built an SDK that supports text, audio (STT, TTS), image generation (e.g., Stable Diffusion), and multimodal models! It also has a model hub to help you easily find local models optimized for your device.

Nexa AI local model hub: https://nexaai.com/ Toolkit: https://github.com/NexaAI/nexa-sdk

It also comes with a built-in local UI to get started with local models easily and OpenAI-compatible API (with JSON schema for function calling and streaming) for starting local development easily.

You can run the Nexa SDK on any device with a Python environment—and GPU acceleration is supported!

Local LLMs, and especially multimodal local models are the future. It is the only way to make AI accessible (cost-efficient) and safe.