LM Desk

Welcome to LM Desk 👋!

The LM Desk project is a central entrypoint for configuring a set of awesome tools that will power your desktop productivity using generative AI. This is a project-of-projects that brings together the best open source tools to get you developing faster.

Quick Start

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IBM/lm-desk/main/get-lm-desk.sh')"

Principles

• 5-Minutes to Happiness: You should be able to get up and running with these AI tools in 5 minutes or less (as long as you have a fast internet connection!)
• Meet You Where You Are: These tools should work seamlessly with the tools you already have installed on your machine without requiring you to change tools you already love.
• Open Source: All code is open source and freely available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. All models have open weights and are freely available for anyone to use.
• Interoperability: The tools should be interoperable with each other so that they can be easily integrated into your workflow.
• Business Friendly Licensing: The tools should be business friendly licenses so that you can use them, modify them, and distribute them without any legal hurdles.

Projects

Models

• IBM Granite Code (HuggingFace, GitHub): IBM Granite Code is a set of open weights AI models with permissive licenses that are tuned for code completion, documentation generation, and other development tasks.

Local Model Serving

• Ollama (GitHub): Ollama is an engine for managing and running multiple AI models in a local environment.
• ollama-bar: ollama-bar is a bar macOS app that provides a menu-bar interface to manage Ollama and other tools that work with Ollama.

AI-Infused Development

• Visual Studio Code (GitHub): Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It can be extended with plugins to add support for generative AI models.
• Continue (GitHub): Continue is an IDE plugin that brings together AI models to power your development workflow. It includes features such as code completion, debugging, and linting.

AI-App Development

• Open WebUI (GitHub): Open WebUI provides a rich web interface for prototyping AI applications using the most popular generative AI design patterns (prompt engineering, RAG, tool calling, etc.). It is build to work seamlessly with ollama and take advantage of the models you have available locally.