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Apple is considering offering an AI server built around 'M8' series chips and has discussed incorporating Nvidia networking hardware, The Information reports. The system would be sold to outside custo

Anyone interested in trying out a new inference provider? We're testing Gemma 4:26b and Qwen 3.8:27B behind an OpenAI-compatible API and looking for a few users to give them a spin and tell us how it

Hey experts! I genuinely have this question and would love a general consensus from people actually using these models. LLMs have advanced a lot in benchmarks and in practical usage. Even GPT-4o and G

can you draw a picture of a flower in gimp? So I ran through this setup to install the MCP server suite from GITHUB, it's pretty easy to follow the install - and installs the libraries necessary to co

GoBench evaluates LLMs on 9x9 Go games against a ladder of KataGo opponents, from random to superhuman. It measures general reasoning ability, strongly correlates with ARC-AGI 2 (r=0.83 correlation),

I've been working on something that started as the training backend for my Hierarchos architecture, but it has grown into a much broader project: https://github.com/necat101/Hierarchos-Native Hierarch

It turns out Krea 2 was trained on a number of different pixel art resolutions. These loras help you get some of these resolutions more consistently and avoid ugly 'mixel' resolutions with inconsisten

GitHub: https://github.com/pfekin/LARA I've been working on LARA (Lightweight Additive Residual Adaptation), a research project on making post-training modular for frozen language models. I've also de

We gave two small LLMs a real customer-service task. One got 100/100. The other stopped with the job half-done. I wanted to test something more meaningful than benchmark scores: can a small model actu

A follow-up to my earlier post about small models on phones. Last time it was fixed tasks in a single browser. This is something else. Ministral 3 3B Q4_K_M in llama.cpp on a Samsung Galaxy S21, four

It's late at night in the lab, I've been working on a basic script for a virology project, and holy hell the safeguards have been pissing me off. Mirroring detectEVE data over rsync to my laptop by ma

It's an old Mitch Herdberg routine about tricky survey questions. But every time Qwen 3.8 spits out one of those sentences that is structurally correct but makes no actual sense, it pops into my head.

I let Qwen 3.8 27B 4bit quantized with 100K context window run autonomously for 63 hours (50 million+ tokens) to try to solve the RH. Of course it did not solve it, but the experiment still shows it's

Saw the new Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog Jev model which just outputs probabilities given choices and I thought it sounded a something the Qwen reranker models could do? Then

Setup for one long agentic coding session (tools + vision) on a single 5090: Qwen3.8-27B RVN Heretic (ARA abliterated) at Q6_K, 159744 context, 1 slot, q8_0 K/V, DFlash2 speculative decoding, vision p

Achieved steady 15 tokens/second output and 100-120 promp processing per second with 12GB GPU (RTX 5070 SFF) with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-GGUF at 3 bpw (IQ3_XXS which maches BF16 on AIME25). Around

At last my small pebble of contribution has been merged. Thanks to CISC. Support for the model DFM Mimir 1B gguf here: https://huggingface.co/noctrex/DFM-Mimir additional optimization will be added in

https://preview.redd.it/e5wn8eyh7vph1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=5faeec866acc9e8eca8dc9e84a6661bee7bcf954 https://preview.redd.it/8ov5gl8j7vph1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=440320c

I am planning to buy hardware to run local models. I'm not sure what kind of hardware is best and what will I be able to run. I'm torn between getting a used M1 Max 64gb Macbook for €1500, M3 Max 128g

I wanted to test what Qwen 3.8 27B running locally on a single 5090 could do in Row-Bot. I gave it just one prompt: 'I want you to create an animation showing what the current local model can do. Test

Follow up post of https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/nGMyKswrch. Thanks everyone who replied. I didn't change the specs. Might be loosing some of the memory bandwidth but will scale in future if I

What taste in humor do LLMs have? Do LLMs like certain types of jokes? Do they have strong opinions? Our report: LLMs have some overlap in humor taste, about 3/4 agreement but it ranges from 54.9% to

With the recent Nvidia Huggingface acquisition and frontier AI labs screaming about safety and putting guardrails everywhere, I think it's important that we have local models that aren't affected by a

I've been working on something for this community (and other self-hosted communities) for almost 5 months now. Personally, I would grade it as probably the closest open source equivalent of Manus and

https://reddit.com/link/1wi2zuc/video/rs1a4sx92xph1/player Hey everyone, I’ve been experimenting with local LLMs on Intel hardware, and I wanted a hyper-optimized, standalone CLI tool that didn't rely

I'm pretty sure it can be done with any model based on qwen4exp, which Qwen's next local models will be based on. You can use a quant that barely fits in VRAM and still run at the model's maximum cont

I implemented expert lookahead, a trick that gets a 10%+ performance improvement on MoE models running on low-memory macs (Qwen 3.8 flash in this case) while using expert-offloading/ssd-streaming (usi

So I would like to run qwen 3.8 27b locally for my ai agents, maybe even in parallel with other small LLMs (such as qwen3.5 9b, oss 20b etc..). What is the best hardware to do this? Not a video card b

Hey r/LocalLLaMA, We’ve released our full ShapeLearn GGUFs for Qwen 3.8 27B. Blog / Download models TL;DR 3.84 bpw (GPU-5) reaches 99.63% of BF16’s aggregate score of 8 benchmarks, being the most accu

example: https://huggingface.co/audnai/penclaw-GLM-5.3-abliterated-for-offensive-cyber. edit: good context for why this was done here https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1whbvpx/comment/pa16g

Disclaimer: no AI was used whatsoever to write this post Cautionary tale about chasing cheap tokens. exposé: https://kendell.dev/blog/crofaifalse/ reaction by nahcrof, announcing the shutdown of the s

EDIT: Sorry for the unclear title. This model is UkisAI's Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, not a new version of BottleCap AI's 3.6-ThinkingCap. All credit goes to UkisAI for making great fine-tune, and I made this

I liked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash as an agent model but at 16 t/s on ds4 it was painful to sit through a real turn. It seemed some redditors and m3 ultra owners appreciated my glm 53 flash optimizations, so

One thing I love about both Qwen 3.8 27B and Flash Next is the effort it puts in to make a good product. It is the opposite of a lazy model and 'good enough' is never what aims to accomplish. It goes

I have tried using qwen 3.6 and 3.8 q5 64k context and I'm just not getting the experience everyone here seems to get. I'm using open code and it will loop, forget what it's doing, and mess up the ui.

After two days of fighting with benchmarking infrastructure, I finally benchmarked IFM/K2-Horizon-7B on 16GB VRAM. TL/DR: it works, but far behind Qwen-3.8-27B. Setup I compared 3 models - Qwen3.8-27B

Three weeks back , i posted SHADOW-250M here. It got 360 upvotes, 293 on r/LocalLLaMA and 94 GitHub stars. Thank you. That model was 60 MB, ran around 400 tok/s on CPU and could retrieve records from

I have a custom fork of llama.cpp designed around the ampere architecture specifically (though many of the upgrades also translate to faster performance of blackwell + lovelace). The recommended confi

For years, the JVM has watched the AI revolution from the bench. Every model, AI framework, every breakthrough, built with/for Python. jinfer is an inference engine built for the JVM from first princi

I am a beginner, Took a while to get started, get everything right. This setup is native not container. Still not sure if I did this right, or if I can tune this more. Environment=HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 Env

As you know, Qwen3.8 27B has built-in support for embeddings. It gives pretty decent results in llama.cpp with the following parameters: --embedding --pooling mean The problem is that enabling embeddi

Hey everyone! We’re launching Voice Acting Arena with LAION x TTS Arena, and we’d love your help trying it out 🙂 You’ll hear two anonymous AI performances of the same scene and script, then compare th

Two months ago I announced I had found a new dynamic quant method called Voodoo Quant which was SOTA for the most aggressive quant levels on some smaller Qwen3.5 GGUF models. I kept the methodology pr

Personally, I think the whole 'AI (LLMs) is going to take over' is just BS marketing. They've been pushing this doom-and-gloom since 2019, and we all know the models back then were nowhere near as cap

I reallise this is not exactly a locally hostable model, at least definitly not on my hardware. But I figured some of you might have some insight on this. I run an agentic coding benchmark. The model

I had all the data saved from AA's v4.1 index, so when they upgraded it in the wake of Astra's release, I could actually generate a before/after comparison. All intelligence and price per task are sam