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Camelid-PHP

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Camelid PHP is a PHP-based local LLM runtime for macOS that runs small Llama models on Apple Metal, providing a streaming chat UI, CLI, and HTTP API.

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2026-07-30

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Why it is worth attention

It implements model loading, tokenization, sampling, and generation in PHP while offloading matrix-heavy operations to Apple Metal through FFI, making an LLM stack surprisingly approachable for PHP developers and readable for experimentation.

Who it is for

  • PHP developers interested in LLM and ML internals
  • macOS users who want a private local chat on Apple Silicon
  • Self-hosters needing a simple local HTTP API or CLI for generation
  • Developers learning tokenization, sampling, and Metal integration

Use cases

  • Run a private Llama 3.2 1B chat server locally on macOS
  • Use the CLI for terminal-based text generation
  • Call the streaming HTTP /generate endpoint from custom applications
  • Experiment with model execution and Metal kernels in PHP

Strengths

  • Dependency-free PHP HTTP/SSE server with a responsive streaming chat interface
  • All prompts and conversations remain local, with the server listening on 127.0.0.1 by default
  • Supports Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Q8_0 with a SHA-256-verified downloader and included diagnostics tests
  • Provides CLI options, chat controls, and configurable server settings such as context size and port

Considerations

  • macOS with Apple Metal only; no Linux, Windows, or CPU fallback
  • Generation is sequential: one token at a time, prompt processing is not batched, and requests are handled one after another
  • Only a small, deliberately supported set of GGUF model layouts is accepted

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