EDIT: oh, wait. Actually people usually have a handful to a few dozen of the these models lying around. When they update their backend, you just redownload every single model again.
EDIT 2: right, you can release a program that automatically patches and updates the downloaded model+executables. Such an invention.
unzip -l llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4 | grep llava-v1
Archive: llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4
4081004224 11-15-2023 22:13 llava-v1.5-7b-Q4_K.gguf
177415936 11-15-2023 22:13 llava-v1.5-7b-mmproj-Q4_0.gguf> llamafile-server-0.1 -m llama-2-13b.Q8_0.gguf
You know, most people don't have 24+GB GPUs sitting around to train these models. So in my book this is a huge step forward. Personally, this is the first time i am able to run an LLM on my computer, and it's purely thanks to this.
But yes, unless there is a way to patch it, bundling the model with the executable like this is going to be more wasteful.