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Ettore Di Giacinto

Ettore Di Giacinto is the creator and lead maintainer of LocalAI, a community-driven open-source project for running LLMs and other AI models locally.

LocalAI is an open-source, OpenAI-API-compatible engine that lets users run large language models plus image, audio, and video models locally on consumer hardware without requiring a GPU. It was created by Ettore Di Giacinto, a longtime open-source contributor (Gentoo, openSUSE, Cloud Foundry) who also works as Head of Open Source at Spectro Cloud, and the project began in 2023 as a drop-in replacement API for local inferencing. LocalAI is maintained as a community project on GitHub (mudler/LocalAI) rather than operating as a registered company; it has no disclosed funding, headquarters, or employee count to report.

Founded

2023

Sector

infrastructure