PublicAI

Overview

Property	Details
Description	PublicAI provides large language models including essential models like the swiss-ai apertus model.
Provider Route on LiteLLM	publicai/
Link to Provider Doc	PublicAI ↗
Base URL	https://platform.publicai.co/
Supported Operations	/chat/completions

https://platform.publicai.co/

We support ALL PublicAI models, just set publicai/ as a prefix when sending completion requests

Required Variables

Environment Variables

os.environ["PUBLICAI_API_KEY"] = ""  # your PublicAI API key

You can overwrite the base url with:

os.environ["PUBLICAI_API_BASE"] = "https://platform.publicai.co/v1"

Usage - LiteLLM Python SDK

Non-streaming

PublicAI Non-streaming Completion

import os
import litellm
from litellm import completion

os.environ["PUBLICAI_API_KEY"] = ""  # your PublicAI API key

messages = [{"content": "Hello, how are you?", "role": "user"}]

# PublicAI call
response = completion(
    model="publicai/swiss-ai/apertus-8b-instruct", 
    messages=messages
)

print(response)

Streaming

PublicAI Streaming Completion

import os
import litellm
from litellm import completion

os.environ["PUBLICAI_API_KEY"] = ""  # your PublicAI API key

messages = [{"content": "Hello, how are you?", "role": "user"}]

# PublicAI call with streaming
response = completion(
    model="publicai/swiss-ai/apertus-8b-instruct", 
    messages=messages,
    stream=True
)

for chunk in response:
    print(chunk)

Usage - LiteLLM Proxy

Add the following to your LiteLLM Proxy configuration file:

config.yaml

model_list:
  - model_name: swiss-ai-apertus-8b
    litellm_params:
      model: publicai/swiss-ai/apertus-8b-instruct
      api_key: os.environ/PUBLICAI_API_KEY

  - model_name: swiss-ai-apertus-70b
    litellm_params:
      model: publicai/swiss-ai/apertus-70b-instruct
      api_key: os.environ/PUBLICAI_API_KEY

Start your LiteLLM Proxy server:

Start LiteLLM Proxy

litellm --config config.yaml

# RUNNING on http://0.0.0.0:4000

OpenAI SDK

PublicAI via Proxy - Non-streaming

from openai import OpenAI

# Initialize client with your proxy URL
client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:4000",  # Your proxy URL
    api_key="your-proxy-api-key"       # Your proxy API key
)

# Non-streaming response
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="swiss-ai-apertus-8b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello from litellm"}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

PublicAI via Proxy - Streaming

from openai import OpenAI

# Initialize client with your proxy URL
client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:4000",  # Your proxy URL
    api_key="your-proxy-api-key"       # Your proxy API key
)

# Streaming response
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="swiss-ai-apertus-8b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello from litellm"}],
    stream=True
)

for chunk in response:
    if chunk.choices[0].delta.content is not None:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="")

LiteLLM SDK

PublicAI via Proxy - LiteLLM SDK

import litellm

# Configure LiteLLM to use your proxy
response = litellm.completion(
    model="litellm_proxy/swiss-ai-apertus-8b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello from litellm"}],
    api_base="http://localhost:4000",
    api_key="your-proxy-api-key"
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

PublicAI via Proxy - LiteLLM SDK Streaming

import litellm

# Configure LiteLLM to use your proxy with streaming
response = litellm.completion(
    model="litellm_proxy/swiss-ai-apertus-8b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello from litellm"}],
    api_base="http://localhost:4000",
    api_key="your-proxy-api-key",
    stream=True
)

for chunk in response:
    if hasattr(chunk.choices[0], 'delta') and chunk.choices[0].delta.content is not None:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="")

cURL

PublicAI via Proxy - cURL

curl http://localhost:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your-proxy-api-key" \
  -d '{
    "model": "swiss-ai-apertus-8b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hello from litellm"}]
  }'

PublicAI via Proxy - cURL Streaming

curl http://localhost:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your-proxy-api-key" \
  -d '{
    "model": "swiss-ai-apertus-8b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hello from litellm"}],
    "stream": true
  }'

For more detailed information on using the LiteLLM Proxy, see the LiteLLM Proxy documentation.