Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python

14 pointsposted a day ago
by sawfwair

7 Comments

janrakete

5 hours ago

I think it’s generally a good idea to use a standalone, local solution. I also like the approach of combining multiple models with different focuses under a single interface. On the other hand, I usually use very specialized models (for programming, for example) and rarely end up generating music or a video on the side. So I can’t think of a reason to use the system right now.

What target audience do you have in mind?

sawfwair

5 hours ago

That's a great q and point. I built it to get at a broad approach to tying multimodal capability together in one place as I'm personally building products on top of it that stitch chat, image, video together and wanted to enable others to do the same. For just coding/chat/specialized models I'd say ollama or lm studio is still the better bet generally, but for some of the models I care about I'm trying to optimize pretty deeply and make fine-tuning really simple. Plus I'm often supporting and bouncing between Mac and Cuda boxes so wanted something where the same codebase ran on both.

sawfwair

a day ago

some real numbers on my m4 max -

image gen (zimage-nano), 1024x1024: 58s

image -> textured mesh (trellis.2): 2m 49s

sfx generate (5s clip): 3.6s

music generate (8s, ace-step): 15s

speech synth: 13s | transcribed back: 2.2s

video gen w/ audio(ltx unified-av) 4s,768x512: 2m 48s

text chat (laguna xs2.1): 102 tok/s - https://mlx.fast leaderboard

ks2048

21 hours ago

FYI, the title makes no sense in isolation.

sawfwair

21 hours ago

totally fair! i spent a while trying to get clever and compress what i wanted to say and finally just hit submit but prob lost too much - local inference runtime, one cli that runs image/video/music/speech/3d/etc on your own machine without package hell. would def edit if I still could after your feedback, but window is closed. Thank you!

ks2048

20 hours ago

At least add “models”. Doing “music” on your local machine can mean many things.

sawfwair

18 hours ago

Yes, missed that completely... Great point!