Brief
Minions: a method for local and cloud LLM collaboration
A Stanford Hazy Research lab team and collaborators have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices, though the source offers few implementation details. Small on-device models such as Llama 3.2 with Ollama collaborate with larger cloud models such as GPT-4o.
The source describes a collaboration between small on-device models and larger cloud models. It names Llama 3.2 with Ollama as an example of the on-device side and GPT-4o as an example of the cloud side. The stated aim is to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices.
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- Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, and James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices.
- Small on-device models (such as Llama 3.2 with Ollama) collaborate with larger models in the cloud (such as GPT-4o).
Sources
- Ollama blogText stored 15 September 2026
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