llamafile: run LLMs from a single-file executable, README overview
The README presents llamafile as a way to distribute and run LLMs as one file that runs locally with no installation, using llama.cpp and Cosmopolitan Libc.
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Source: https://github.com/mozilla-ocho/llamafile
What it supplies: The README presents llamafile as a way to distribute and run LLMs as one file that runs locally with no installation, using llama.cpp and Cosmopolitan Libc.
Useful for: - Hand someone a single executable that runs a local model without an installer.
- Transcribe or translate audio files with the bundled whisperfile tool.
- Run the llamafile binary with your own GGUF weights when a bundled model is too big for Windows.
First action: - Download a pre-built llamafile, such as the small Qwen3.5 0.8B example in the quick start.
- On macOS, Linux or BSD make it executable with chmod +x and run it.
- On Windows rename the file to add .exe first.
Prerequisites and limits: The README gives no hardware table. It says versions from 0.10.0 use a new build system and that earlier versions stay available on the releases page; pre-built llamafiles show which server version they bundle.
- Windows cannot run a llamafile larger than 4GB.
- Versions from 0.10.0 may lack features of the classic releases.
- Details of supported systems, troubleshooting and creating llamafiles are in linked documentation that was not read.
Source-documented: the project is Apache 2.0-licensed, and its llama.cpp and whisper.cpp changes are MIT-licensed. Models you run carry their own licences, which the README does not cover.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on README text only; the documentation site, releases and code were not read. No download or run was made.
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