It seems like the ecosystem around these tools has matured quite rapidly. I am somewhat familiar with Open WebUI, however, the last time I played around with it, I got the sense that it was merely a front-end to Ollama, the llm command line tool & it didn't have any capabilities outside of that.

I got spooked when the Ollama team started monetizing so I ended up doing more research into llama.cpp and realized it could do everything I wanted including serve up a web front end. Once I discovered this I sort of lost interest in Open WebUI.

I'll have to revisit all these tools again to see what's possible in the current moment.

> My sense is that you need ~1gb of RAM for every 1b paramters, so 32gb should in theory work here. I think macs also get a performance boost over other hardware due to unified memory.

This is a handy heuristic to work with, and the links you sent will keep me busy for the next little while. Thanks!