Mano

Show HN: I built an on-device LLM based chatbot for iPhones

Based based in Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia, Mano works in show hn launch, founded in 2023.

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I’ve been playing around with local LLMs for the past couple of months and decided to build something that can run on an iPhone. It’s a universal app built with SwiftUI and the excellent ggml library. The model is an SFT fine tuned and 4 bit quantised version of the RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1 OSS LLM. It works reasonably well on recent-ish (~3 year old) iPhones, iPads and Macs. It was launched on the App Store yesterday[1] and Product Hunt today[2]. It seems to be reasonably ok at natural language interactions, but given its size, does pretty badly at coding and reasoning. Also, it sometimes hallucinates after a few back and forth messages. The fine tuning for natural language Q&A seems to

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The business is associated with Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia.

The company is listed at the Seed stage of development.

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Public records show total funding of about $1K.

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