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I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

14 pointsby kumarskitoday at 5:08 PM14 commentsview on HN

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roborortoday at 7:44 PM

Identified every component of my system incorrectly. W11.

jsherertoday at 7:39 PM

I find this to be pretty accurate: https://www.canirun.ai/

not_your_vasetoday at 7:31 PM

That's not very accurate. It sees 8 GB RAM instead of 64. And it detects GTX 9 GPU, though I have an RTX30 one.

(Edit: now it came to my mind that Firefox has fingerprinting protection by default. But even after whitelisting this website, the result is the same)

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spprashanttoday at 7:25 PM

For some reason it is not able to detect 64GB RAM on my Fedora Linux mini PC. It shows only 8GB.

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haeberlitoday at 7:56 PM

auto-detect failed to correctly detect 128GB ram vs 32GB ram on MacBook Pro M5

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jrm4today at 7:49 PM

Interestingly wrong; probably has to do with the fingerprinting and whatnot.

I do appreciate that the "canirun" one

1) was also wrong 2) but let me pick my real card from the dropdown with results that seemed much more accurate.

Genuine question - is there literally any factor besides RAM and GPU (with VRAM info?)

kumarskitoday at 5:09 PM

and no I'm not a software develpoer - just smacked it together with minimax for personal needs.

Thought it was nifty so shared. Would love to see a real CS person's version of this and/or best prompt to build something like this accurately and keep it up to date as models advance and SOTA shifts.

nailertoday at 7:19 PM

Great idea! You're 95% of the way there and the rest is a couple of UI tweaks.

1. I thought the table showing a bunch of models after my laptop specs would be models I could run on my laptop.

    Model Tier Example Models Params RAM Needed Your Status
    Top SOTA GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini Ultra 1T+ Datacenter —
    Large Models Llama 3 70B, Mistral Large, Command R+ 70B 64 GB  Usable
    Mid Models Llama 3 8B, Mistral 7B, Phi-3 Medium 7-13B 16 GB  Usable
    Small Models Phi-3 Mini, Llama 3 2B, Gemma 2B 1-3B 4 GB  Your Tier
'Your tier' is too subtle. I would make 'Your tier' highlight the ENTIRE row in some bright color to make it more obvious, and maybe fade the other rows slightly.

2. I don't know what 'usable' means. How can these models be status:usable if they are not 'my tier'? I deduce 'usable' doesn't mean usable on my laptop but I don't know what 'usable' does mean.

3. Give me links to set up the best model I can.

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cyanydeeztoday at 7:08 PM

One word: wrong.

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