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Chatbox

Chatbox is a desktop client for LLMs, available on Windows, Mac, Linux.

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

Prerequisites

Setup vLLM environment

Deploy

Start the vLLM server with the supported chat completion model, e.g.

vllm serve qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

Download and install Chatbox desktop.
On the bottom left of settings, Add Custom Provider
- API Mode: OpenAI API Compatible
- Name: vllm
- API Host: http://{vllm server host}:{vllm server port}/v1
- API Path: /chat/completions
- Model: qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

:::{image} /assets/deployment/chatbox-settings.png :::

Go to Just chat, and start to chat:

:::{image} /assets/deployment/chatbox-chat.png :::