What are you doing for a reliable, well designed local model based AI search?
Ive been using OpenWebUI's inbuilt web search and I can't put my finger on it, but it's not quite as polished, reliable, seamless as using Claude or Gemini.
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- And its often slow beyond a limit that makes me subconsciously not want to use it - I understand its unlikely to get to cloud speed without making huge compromises in model quality/quantization, but im ok with something like a minute or two max.
- So curious what people are doing for local model based AI search, specifically:
- Smallest, most aggressive quant that is still producing reliable info and good summaries even with many search results being injected to the LLM
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- [1]What are you doing for a reliable, well designed local model based AI search?r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 12, 03:52 AM
Ive been using OpenWebUI's inbuilt web search and I can't put my finger on it, but it's not quite as polished, reliable, seamless as using Claude or Gemini.
And its often slow beyond a limit that makes me subconsciously not want to use it - I understand its unlikely to get to cloud speed without making huge compromises in model quality/quantization, but im ok with something like a minute or two max.
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