Brendan McKeag

Runpod is now an official sponsor of StockDory, a rapidly evolving open-source chess engine that improves faster than Stockfish. StockDory offers deep positional insight, lightning-fast calculations, and full customization—making it ideal for anyone looking to explore AI-driven chess analysis.

While Oobabooga is a popular choice for text-based AI roleplay, KoboldAI offers a powerful alternative with smart context handling, more flexible editing, and better long-term memory retention. This guide compares the two frontends and walks through deploying KoboldAI on Runpod for writers and roleplayers looking for a deeper, more persistent AI interaction experience.

Oobabooga now supports up to 8192 tokens of context, up from the previous 2048-token limit. Learn how to upgrade your install, download compatible models, and optimize your setup to take full advantage of expanded memory capacity in longform text generation.

Runpod now offers access to NVIDIA’s powerful H100 GPUs, designed for generative AI workloads at scale. These next-gen GPUs deliver 7–12x performance gains over the A100, making them ideal for training massive models like GPT-4 or deploying demanding inference tasks.

Oobabooga has a 2048-token context limit, but with the Long Term Memory extension, you can store and retrieve relevant memories across conversations. This guide shows how to install the plugin, use the Character panel for persistent memory, and work around current context limitations.

Learn how to install and use Bark AI on Runpod to generate realistic, expressive synthetic voices for narration, videos, or voiceover projects—no voice cloning required.

Pygmalion 7b and Metharme 7b significantly improve on the creative writing capabilities of Pygmalion 6b. This post walks through model comparisons and how to deploy them on Runpod with the Oobabooga template.