- Install the Jan.ai Desktop Application on your computer.
- Once installed, you will need to install a language model. Click the ‘Hub’ icon on the left sidebar (the four squares icon). Click the ‘Download’ button next to the model you would like to install, and wait for it to finish installing before continuing.
- To start your model, click the ‘Settings’ icon at the bottom of the left sidebar. Then click ‘Models’ under the CORE EXTENSIONS section. This page displays all of your installed models. Click the options icon next to the model you would like to start (vertical ellipsis icon). Then click ‘Start Model’, which will take a few seconds to fire up.
- Click the ‘Advanced’ button under the GENERAL section, and toggle on the “Enable API Server” option. This will start a local server that you can use to interact with your model.
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Now we fire up Open Interpreter with this custom model. Either run
interpreter --local
in the terminal to set it up interactively, or run this command, but replace<model_id>
with the id of the model you downloaded:
If Jan is producing strange output, or no output at all, make sure to update
to the latest version and clean your cache.