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(Don't judge by the screenshot, the cache is cold. It hits 24+ tok/s with a warm cache!) About two months ago, I made a post here asking whether predicting which MoE experts would be used on the next

Running a model on your own machine used to be a privacy story with a quality tax. On this generation that trade has narrowed to where we can state it plainly: for daily work, the local model is good

I constantly see recommendations saying that ik_llama.cpp (ikawrakow's fork) is the undisputed king of hybrid CPU/GPU offloading and MoE performance. However, every time I benchmark it against mainlin

Row-Bot 5.0 with qwen3.8:27b in Ollama, on my own GPU. No API keys, no cloud. Gave it a year of bills, a tenancy agreement, an insurance policy and a rent increase letter (all made up). It spotted a l

Ideally I'd like to be able to run Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next with decent performance. I was thinking of just buying 2x Radeon AI R9700 (64GB VRAM), or maybe a DGX Spark but that was before the price hike. M

Following on from club-5060ti and club-rdna16, I’ve put together Infermeld: a small, open-source Linux companion kit for running one GGUF across an AMD GPU and an NVIDIA GPU, powered by llama.cpp. I’m

Finally finished my fork: https://github.com/IceFog72/ik_llama.cpp Nothing else I wanted to add/try currently works In short, it now has: Bandwidth-adaptive CPU/GPU execution Shared expert-residency i

Hey all. We've spent the last weeks getting Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 6B active) to run properly on one AMD Strix Halo box (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB). Tonight we're releasing both the 95 GB EXL3

I keep testing harness & model setups on real tasks: basic math, vision, computer use (reading emails, navigating stores) and coding. I created a benchmark and a leaderboard. You can see it here: http

Help with this list. Give me your recommendation on 'not supported anymore' GPUs. Looking for budget and Vulkan friendly options. Most of the GPU are not supported by latest CUDA / ROCm. Often with so

I wanted to see how far I could push a fairly ordinary laptop with a huge MoE model. Turns out, Qwen3.8 Flash Next 176B can run on: RTX 3080 Laptop — 16GB VRAM 32GB system RAM SSD No 128GB/256GB RAM w

There seems to be a whole category of extremely narrow inference runtimes appearing: Strata, ninfer, DwarfStar, Splash, llamAmpere, gufo, etc. They deliberately give up the thing llama.cpp/vLLM are gr

So everyone has been yelling about how I should be using Gufo instead of halogen because it's open source and it's 'just as good or better'. Checking in on their GitHub (GitHub.com/gufo-org/gufo) got

40 year tech gap? No problem! The Tandy runs DeskMind, a native DOS program. It talks over WiFi (a PicoMEM 2 card with mTCP) to a small Python server on my PC. That server drives Qwen3.8-27B (NInfer o

I've been experimenting with ways to run MoE models that don't fit comfortably in RAM, and I ended up making Overspill, a disk tier for FreeToken. The basic idea came from looking at how Colibri handl

For instance whenever a model comes out, what’s the best engine to run it, the best harness and absolute minimum you need to get same or near same re results that the benchmark of that model claims. A

I've been playing around with Ling 3.0 Tiny, which is an 8 billion parameter model (MoE, 1B active). And I've had a lot of poignant thoughts as a result. Just for fun, I got it running with llama.cpp

For the last few days, I've been using two computers to run multiple agents. My 4x3090 machine is running Qwen 3.8 27B with parallel=2, so I can run two agents at the same time. My pi instances are ru

The jump from Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B to current-day Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is crazy, especially with all the fine-tunes, and that was around 6 months (I didn't care for local AI back then, or AI at all, apart

In light of recent events and media coverage, ai is in the spotlight and people are afraid. How I respond to those fears: If you are afraid of ai then you should also be afraid of all medical research

I've been comparing and working on Gemma 4, Phi-4-Mini, and Qwen3-4B for local LLM use on an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 5. The results were indeed close, but each model has a different strength: Gemma 4 E2B: a

hey! we're a small swiss and south african lab and we just put out hemmingway-1. it's a 27b model we trained specifically for roleplay, creative writing, dialogue, stories, and for everyday texting. f

TL;DR: I run a mismatched Tesla V100-PCIE pair—one 16 GB card and one 32 GB card, 48 GB total—in a Proxmox/LXC-based local-inference lab. The practical winner so far is a recent CUDA build of llama.cp

I had Astra run a multi-hour investigation into speeding up local MoE inference while keeping the model weights and quantization unchanged. The experiments covered Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8 Flash-Ne

Note - This is translated from the actual blog link right at the bottom. A few days ago, DeepSeek v4.1 was released. It raised the ability of small models to a new level. AI is improving much faster t

I'm documenting a reproducible setup for running current llama.cpp on a mixed AMD Vega system with both: Radeon RX Vega 64 / Vega10 / gfx900 (8GB HBM2) Radeon Instinct MI50 (Vega20) / gfx906 (16GB HBM

Hey everyone, If you run local models via Ollama in production or personal projects, you've probably run into the hallucination problem: how do you know when a model is hallucinating without burning e

Over the last two weeks, I set a challenge for myself: to find out if it was possible to make a high-quality music video using a local rig and open-source AI models. So, in my free time, I’ve been exp

DISCLAIMER I ramble a lot and am not good at focusing on documentation and or coherent thoughts. TLDR I did things I made a thing and it works for me. I will try to answer any questions. A few people

I'm using DS-V4-Flash-Vision with Q8_K_XL quantization locally as my everyday engine, and for some time now I've been doing a lot of comparisons with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, also with Q8_K_XL quantization

I built a denser GGUF format for ternary models: Q2_B3 / “B3S” If you're running a ternary model like BitNet-b1.58 or Ternary-Bonsai, the weights are already restricted to -1, 0, or +1 times a block s

There is a video stream running on my desktop right now. It has sound, it has never repeated itself, and it will not stop. I point VLC at a local URL and it plays. One RTX 5090 does all of it — no clo

In mid-August, Ramp published spending data collected from 70,000 U.S. companies: Fable 5 ,the most powerful and expensive model in Anthropic’s lineup, accounts for just 11% of what those businesses s

A few days ago I posted asking what people considered the best local model for an 8 GB VRAM GPU. At the time, my personal sweet spot was Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, for agentic coding with Pi.dev. Well… Thanks t

audio.cpp 0.7 is out :) This release adds a lot of new audio models and a new way to compare them locally. Audio.cpp is now at 62 model families and 85+ model variants. And it keeps growing! The bigge

New/Old benchmark that provides a lot of answers for local LLM. I present to you a new test that I developed somewhat by accident: https://huggingface.co/cHunter789/Qwen3.8-27B-i1-IQ4_KS_KT-GGUF/tree/

I think AA's intelligence/cost plot is seriously misleading, so I decided to make my own. Their plot is in the second image. All points are at max thinking. All intelligence index scores are from AA.

I have a lot of content in my personal Obsidian vault and would feel much more comfortable using LLMs with an offline model. I've experimented with Ollama and various small 3b/8b local models (given c

Qwen released the 2.4T Max weights and I was curious how well it can re-create COD in one prompt I ran the model on a rented B200 cluster and used roughly 1.1M output tokens over a 5 hour time span Re

Following up on my previous post about my budget server setup (Intel N100 + RTX 5060 Ti 16GB), a few of you asked for a deeper dive into my actual inference config and real-world agentic performance.

I managed to get Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B running locally with llama.cpp on mu PC just for fun, cause why not. I was using the Unsloth Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B-UD-Q1_0 GGUF quantization. The full GGUF is about 397

Hi r/LocalLLaMA 👋 Today we’re excited to release Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model built specifically for local agent workflows. We’re releasing the weights to the community under a permissive Apa

I was going through the current llama.cpp CPU PRs and #26348 stood out because this isn't the usual +5% kernel optimization. It adds an x86 VNNI implementation for the Q2_0 × Q8_0 dot product, and the

I'm the author, so discount the enthusiasm accordingly. This is an unaffiliated community port, not endorsed by the vLLM project, which it uses to verify its correctness. What started it: I love vLLM,

Users also report that the free version was significantly downgraded after the release of the new models this is very important for us when considering local hosting. A lot of people decided not to bu

Disclosure: I’m the author and maintainer of QuarkStar. I built QuarkStar, a small native inference engine inspired by Antirez’s DwarfStar. QuarkStar currently supports: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, using the sam