MLX Server, Chainlit and Llama3 Chatbot in less than 2 minutes

Installation

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running Server

python -m mlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-4bit --log-level DEBUG

This will start the MLX server and will download the LLM if it is not already downloaded from Hugging Face. Check this link for more information about MLX.

Running App

chainlit run app.py

This will start the Chainlit app. Check this link for more information about ChainLit.