AnythingLLM¶

AnythingLLM is a full-stack application that enables you to turn any document, resource, or piece of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting.

It allows you to deploy a large language model (LLM) server with vLLM as the backend, which exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

Prerequisites¶

Set up the vLLM environment:

pip install vllm

Deploy¶

1. Start the vLLM server with a supported chat-completion model, for example:

   vllm serve Qwen/Qwen1.5-32B-Chat-AWQ --max-model-len 4096
   

2. Download and install AnythingLLM Desktop.

3. Configure the AI provider:

   • At the bottom, click the 🔧 wrench icon -> Open settings -> AI Providers -> LLM.
   • Enter the following values:
     • LLM Provider: Generic OpenAI
     • Base URL: http://{vllm server host}:{vllm server port}/v1
     • Chat Model Name: Qwen/Qwen1.5-32B-Chat-AWQ

   

4. Create a workspace:

   1. At the bottom, click the ↺ back icon and back to workspaces.
   2. Create a workspace (e.g., vllm) and start chatting.

   

5. Add a document.

   1. Click the 📎 attachment icon.
   2. Upload a document.
   3. Select and move the document into your workspace.
   4. Save and embed it.

   

6. Chat using your document as context.