Whole Mars Catalog

Omar Qazi, identified in Latent Space as Whole Mars Catalog, has discussed the possibilities of running language models on personal devices. Ride AI’s speaker biography describes him as a software engineer and the founder of Whole Mars Catalog.[1][2]

In the Llama 2 discussion published July 19, 2023, Qazi welcomed the model’s commercial license and highlighted the prospect of “running it on your laptop or even your smartphone.” He singled out a seven-billion-parameter model and asked what new applications might become possible.[1]

Responding to Qazi, Simon Willison described running a seven-billion-parameter model offline on his iPhone for brainstorming names and suggested combining small phone models with retrieval augmented generation or tool use.[1]

Qazi also appeared on Farzad Mesbahi’s podcast in an episode published July 19, 2023, titled “Tesla FSD, Q1 2023 Earnings Preview with Omar Qazi of Whole Mars Catalog”.[4]

The Whole Mars name has an account history predating Qazi’s 2023 podcast appearances. In an account published October 6, 2020, Scott Woods wrote: “I created the @WholeMarsBlog Twitter account.” Woods’s account-creation claim is distinct from Qazi’s identification as Whole Mars Catalog in the later discussions.[3][1][4]