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llm-gguf. I just released a new alpha plugin for LLM which adds support for running models from Meta's new Llama 3.1 family that have been packaged as GGUF files - it should work for other GGUF chat models too.

If you've already installed LLM the following set of commands should get you setup with Llama 3.1 8B:

llm install llm-gguf
llm gguf download-model \
  https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF/resolve/main/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  --alias llama-3.1-8b-instruct --alias l31i

This will download a 4.92GB GGUF from lmstudio-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF on Hugging Face and save it (at least on macOS) to your ~/Library/Application Support/io.datasette.llm/gguf/models folder.

Once installed like that, you can run prompts through the model like so:

llm -m l31i "five great names for a pet lemur"

Or use the llm chat command to keep the model resident in memory and run an interactive chat session with it:

llm chat -m l31i

I decided to ship a new alpha plugin rather than update my existing llm-llama-cpp plugin because that older plugin has some design decisions baked in from the Llama 2 release which no longer make sense, and having a fresh plugin gave me a fresh slate to adopt the latest features from the excellent underlying llama-cpp-python library by Andrei Betlen.