Impact Score: 5/10
LocalAI v2.5.0 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
LocalAI v2.5.0. Source highlight: This release adds more embedded models, and shrink image sizes.
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๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- feat: more embedded models, coqui fixes, add model usage and description
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<!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at master -->
## What's Changed
This release adds more embedded models, and shrink image sizes.
You can run now `phi-2` ( see [here](https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/#running-popular-models-one-click) for the full list ) locally by starting localai with:
```
docker run -ti -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:v2.5.0-ffmpeg-core phi-2
```
LocalAI accepts now as argument a list of short-hands models and/or URLs pointing to valid yaml file. A popular way to host those files are Github gists.
For instance, you can run `llava`, by starting `local-ai` with:
```bash
docker run -ti -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:v2.5.0-ffmpeg-core https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mudler/LocalAI/master/embedded/models/llava.yaml
```
### Exciting New Features ๐
* feat: more embedded models, coqui fixes, add model usage and description by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1556
### ๐ Dependencies
* deps(conda): use transformers-env with vllm,exllama(2) by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1554
* deps(conda): use transformers environment with autogptq by @mudler in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1555
* :arrow_up: Update ggerganov/llama.cpp by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1558
### Other Changes
* :arrow_up: Update docs version mudler/LocalAI by @localai-bot in https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/1557
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/compare/v2.4.1...v2.5.0