# LlamaEdge Projects at AI Tinkerers

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LlamaEdge is the easiest, fastest LLM runtime and API server for local or edge deployment.

This is LlamaEdge: the lightweight, high-performance solution for running customized LLMs on local or edge devices. We leverage the Rust and Wasm (WebAssembly) technology stacks, delivering a total runtime dependency under 30MB, which eliminates the 5GB-plus overhead of typical Python environments . LlamaEdge provides an OpenAI-compatible API service, allowing you to quickly host and interact with models like the Llama2 family in GGUF format . Deployment is cross-platform; you get a single, portable binary that runs at native speed across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs (no complex toolchains required) .

- Official technology site: https://llamaedge.com
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Fully Customizable Voice AI with multi-modal open source LLMs and esp32 (clone your own voice too with simple tools)](https://tokyo.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp__c55AmItHW0)

A step‑by‑step guide to building a fully local voice AI using fully open source EchoKit, swapping ASR/TTS models, integrating open‑source LLMs, and deploying on ESP‑32. Walkthrough of how I run the open source EchoKit (https://github.com/second-state/echokit_server) voice AI stack to connect any LLM with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and custom prompts—all running locally or in the cloud. I’ll start with a minimal working setup, then show how to swap in different ASR/TTS models (Whisper, VITS), integrate LLMs (GPT5, Kimi K2, DeepSeek), and add domain-specific knowledge bases. We’ll explore the full data flow, from audio capture to streamed responses, plus edge deployment with the open source runtime WasmEdge for low-latency inference.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Tokyo Kickoff – October 10, 2025 — 2025-10-10 — Tokyo
- Public talk page: https://tokyo.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp__c55AmItHW0

## Related Technologies

- [EchoKit](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/echokit) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/echokit.md)) — 1 public demo
- [ESP32-S3](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/esp32-s3) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/esp32-s3.md)) — 2 public demos
- [esp-idf-hal](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/esp-idf-hal) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/esp-idf-hal.md)) — 1 public demo