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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

Set up the vLLM environment:

pip install vllm

Deploy

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

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

  2. Download and install Chatbox desktop.

  3. 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

  4. Go to Just chat, and start to chat: