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Making AI reproducible and easy to run

The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.

• Self-contained, without containers:
  • Each AI project in the repository is packaged as a self-contained Nix package, including all the necessary dependencies to run the code. This guarantees that you don’t have to worry about version conflicts, missing dependencies, or the state of your operating system. Nix uses an approach different from containers, which eliminates the need for complex container runtimes or virtualization.
• Easy to contribute to:
  • nixified.ai is an open-source project that welcomes contributions from the community. If there is a project you think you could help with packaging, or want packaged, then please make an issue on GitHub
• Reproducible
  • By using a reproducible build process, nixified.ai aims to provide users with the ability to confidently run AI workloads in the long term, without worrying about the shifting sands of the software ecosystem
• Built from source
  • Each AI project in the repository is built from source, along with all of its input dependencies, ensuring that the code is reproducible and can be trusted. Nix allows advanced users to customize and modify the build process at any granularity if desired.
• Cached
  • Thanks to a Nix concept called “Binary Substitution”, any nix command ran by the user will not need to be built from source unless they have made modifications to the source code. This is because when code is built by our CI (Hercules CI), it is pushed to cachix.org, where it can be pulled by any nix client like a traditional binary distribution. If this infrastructure were to disappear however, the user could still reproduce everything locally thanks to Nix.
• Easy to run
  • Users can install and run AI executable code from the nixified.ai repository using a single nix command, on any distribution of Linux, and even Windows by using the Nix package manager.
• Support for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
• Works with Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • nixified.ai provides support for running AI executable code on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a compatibility layer for running Linux applications on Windows. With the help of NixOS-WSL, users can run GPU-accelerated AI workloads on WSL, providing a seamless experience for users who prefer to use Windows as their primary operating system.

Professional support

If you need your own AI project packaged in nixified.ai or need support with nixified.ai, professional support is available through the authors and contributors of the project.

Please contact [email protected] or check the AUTHORS file for a list of contributors you can reach out to. We can assist you in your AI endeavors.

Install NixOS-WSL in Windows

If you’re interested in running nixified.ai in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, you’ll need to enable the WSL and then install NixOS-WSL via it. We provide a script that will do everything for you.

1. Execute the following in Powershell

   Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nixified-ai/flake/master/install.ps1'))

The WSL must be installed via the Windows Store. The script will make an attempt to enable it automatically, but this only works on a fresh system, not one that has been modified manually.

See the following documentation from Microsoft for the details on how to enable and use the WSL manually

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Packaged Projects

textgen (Also called text-generation-webui: A WebUI for LLMs and LoRA training)

• Official website

A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.

Get started

• nix run github:nixified-ai/flake#textgen-amd
• nix run github:nixified-ai/flake#textgen-nvidia

InvokeAI (A Stable Diffusion WebUI)

• Official website

InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.

Get started

• nix run github:nixified-ai/flake#invokeai-amd
• nix run github:nixified-ai/flake#invokeai-nvidia