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https://preview.redd.it/uyjw2lcrvkuh1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce991be22faec3de5cbaf39119c14782b6ed0af3 link to article TLDR; new microsoft surface and nvidia rtx spark laptops are starti

I wanted to compare gemma 4 31b qat q4 and qwen3.8 27b iq4_nl, so I run SWEBench verfied on them. The original gemma 4 chat template doesn't work with preserve reasoning, so google released an update

For what it's worth. I'm a mechanical engineer by education and software engineer in practice over the past ~20 years. Playing around with local models has been a recent hobby. Today I decided to do a

I recently started using local LLM for mostly coding tasks for my personal projects. I also have found local models responding much better for topics such as health, fitness, ergonomics etc. compared

Basalt: Blackwell inference engine Hi all! So over the last week I've been working on a Strata fork that's heavily tuned and can achieve throughput up to 2.6x what Strata usually does on the same weig

I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable. With Maya i am running 30 tok/s now. GLM5.3 feels even with this low quant like a much more en

No more excuses for GPU-poor folks not to start LLMing! Full 27B-class reasoning in ternary transformer weights, for llama.cpp (CUDA, Metal, CPU) ~9.3x smaller than FP16 (ideal) | 98.2% of FP16 intell

I wanted to track grocery spending per item without sending my receipts to anyone, so I built an Android app around a small vision model that reads a photo of a receipt into JSON: store, date, total,

We released Aplomb 1 today, a 5.3B decision model with open weights. It reads up to 1M tokens of text, JSON, images, video and audio in a single request, and on our API it makes a decision on a 1M-tok

Yesterday TechCrunch published a piece about a growing problem for AI agents: websites are starting to block them. Amazon blocking Meta's Muse is the obvious example. At almost exactly the same time,

This table to help anyone looking to build a budget Data Center homelab. I copied the bulk of value based, mid level, decent speed results GPUs and feed it to AI or SI and here are the recommended res

Youtu-Parsing-Omni is a compact (5B) omni-modal parsing model. Given a single input — a document page, a natural image, a chart / flowchart, a geometry figure, an audio clip or an audio-visual video —

For those of you who have been wanting to utilize your dual Spark cluster for image/video gen with ComfyUI - today is your day. I started this personal project back in April of this year, and it’s at

DigUp is a free Mac app that runs Google DeepMind’s new EmbeddingGemma 2 locally over your own files. The model puts text, images, audio and video in one space, so you describe what you remember and l

I recently started using local LLM for mostly coding tasks for my personal projects. I also have found local models responding much better for topics such as health, fitness, ergonomics etc. compared

Ive been using OpenWebUI's inbuilt web search and I can't put my finger on it, but it's not quite as polished, reliable, seamless as using Claude or Gemini. And its often slow beyond a limit that make

I wanted to compare gemma 4 31b qat q4 and qwen3.8 27b iq4_nl, so I run SWEBench verfied on them. The original gemma 4 chat template doesn't work with preserve reasoning, so google released an update

A conversational AI plush toy where nothing leaves my network. Everything runs on my LAN: STT: Whisper LLM: Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B (Q8_0) TTS: Kokoro Memory: per-person (LangGraph). It knows who it's t

Around 3 weeks ago, I posted on this subreddit about how Jev used my one-year-old architecture, og post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/VpuMJt577S Then, just after that, I introduced Laya, the

This will be my third update on the bc-250 cluster and for my first forray into local ai I have been having a blast. This has turned from a weekend experiment into something I think I will use in the

It's been 4 years since c.ai first hallucination model, and yet, we're nowhere good enough at LLMs in terms of spontaneity/interesting hallucination features. Fortunately, last year brought new archit

Inspired by DigUp for macOS, VectorDash aims to be a full Windows 11 search replacement, powered by EmbeddingGemma 2. Full indexing: search by meaning or exact words across photos, screenshots, audio,

I've been tuning llama.cpp on my Strix Halo box (Radeon 8060S, 128 GB) and the numbers are good enough to share. It's a branch called rdna35-perf on top of halo-box/strix-llama.cpp, a llama.cpp fork a

Write-up, serve command and raw data: https://github.com/lukolszewski/vllm This shows vLLM fixes and setup that let you put PLE on SSD and save 108GB of system RAM, use int8 kv and squeeze more users

First off, I know that GLM, Qwen, and DeepSeek absolutely dominate in terms of SOTA Open Source models, and that’s what I use in my personal projects and for school, however, I’m also responsible for

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

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

Follow-up to my post from about two weeks ago. A lot has changed since then, so I wanted to post an update on where the backend is now. Where the green architectures stand When I posted last time, 7 a

I mean , DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax -- the list of Chinese LLM's is such a long freaking list. As American's -- why don't we feel .. a little funny .. about being so far behind? Chinese entrepreneur

It seems Dario's 'too powerful for you users' strategy is paying off: we have two open models at the top of the leaderboard, surpassing every single model from Anthropic. Open source prevails. Even Mi

It's been 4 years since c.ai first hallucination model, and yet, we're nowhere good enough at LLMs in terms of spontaneity/interesting hallucination features. Fortunately, last year brought new archit

EXL3-QLoRA I've built this over the last few months and I think it's stable enough to share now. A fork of ExLlamaV3, this is a native ExLlamaV3 training implementation with plain PyTorch, without tra

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

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

Hey r/LocalLLaMA! I just released PromptDeck v1.1.0 and wanted to share it here since this community is basically the reason it exists. What it is: an open-source desktop studio (Tauri + React) for pr

Follow-up to my January post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1q4i19c/benchmarking_23_llms_on_nonogram_logic_puzzle/. That thread shaped v1.2: Reasoning effort is explicit per run Every p

You may think that jev, OpenClaw or TurboQuant are super cool, but actually the coolest LLM invention happened two years ago As we all know, the best source of reliable information about LLMs is YouTu

Introducing InferBench: A benchmark testing how well frontier LLMs infer a user's priorities from their instructions. We tested 12 LLMs across 20 scenarios with 2.8k conversations to see which models

CrowdStrike report: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/unknown-threat-actor-uses-artex-to-target-south-korean-finance/ From: Andrew Curran on 𝕏: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2108108695876092

For those of you who have been wanting to utilize your dual Spark cluster for image/video gen with ComfyUI - today is your day. I started this personal project back in April of this year, and it’s at

Strata vs Infernix on the same model, RTX 5090 — A/B at 262k and 512k context Hi folks, another inference engine post for your feed. I was blown away by Strata, but saw someone else post about Inferni

Running HauhauCS/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive Q4_K_M with llama.cpp at ~600 tok/s prefill and 23 tok/s decode, 131k context window, Q8 KV cache - on an RTX 2060 6GB + 32GB DDR4 RAM.

hello, I currently use swift qwen3.8 gsq rco in iq3 xxs in strata. The model is only used for hermes agent. I have 64GB of ram + 32GB R9700 where the model runs on. But I also have an rx7800xt with 16

Based on my experiments and feedback from claude, it seems extremely unlikely and even if I get it working, not practical because of minimum context. But just asking here as a last effort. I'm able to

I love Dash2Dock Lite, but Icedman is always a week or two before updates. I randomly ran pacman for the first time in weeks, not realizing GNOME had a major update. I told it to fix it in DeepSeek Ha

I have an app that processes ~500 different documents every day. An agent analyzes them, sorts them, tags them, extracts various legal nuances, creates descriptions, etc. So far I've been using Qwen 3

I'm genuinely shocked! I was able to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-oQ4e-mtp on M3Max 64GB with oMLX! Even a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't able to get it to run. I just tried the latest commit for fun, and it

It's been 4 years since c.ai first hallucination model, and yet, we're nowhere good enough at LLMs in terms of spontaneity/interesting hallucination features. Fortunately, last year brought new archit

Hi All: I have an Asus ESC 4000 G3 with 128 GB DDR4 RAM - I tried putting in my V620s but couldn’t put more than 2. Sadly, pivoted to T4s, these are 72 watt passive cards and I thought I could use the

A conversational AI plush toy where nothing leaves my network. Everything runs on my LAN: STT: Whisper LLM: Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B (Q8_0) TTS: Kokoro Memory: per-person (LangGraph). It knows who it's t

Basalt: Blackwell inference engine Hi all! So over the last week I've been working on a Strata fork that's heavily tuned and can achieve throughput up to 2.6x what Strata usually does on the same weig

Alright, I learend a few valuable lessons since I posted about a week ago, and I've made more strides with the DDR4x Ascend 96GB 310P cards I purchased, so here we go, meet the new friendly and less v

I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable. With Maya i am running 30 tok/s now. GLM5.3 feels even with this low quant like a much more en

DISCLAIMER: the post and the model card was made with the assist of AI. Hiya, I’m releasing Recursive BitNet N-Gram 102M, a small experiment combining ternary weights, shared transformer layers, and h

It's been 4 years since c.ai first hallucination model, and yet, we're nowhere good enough at LLMs in terms of spontaneity/interesting hallucination features. Fortunately, last year brought new archit

Write-up, serve command and raw data: https://github.com/lukolszewski/vllm This shows vLLM fixes and setup that let you put PLE on SSD and save 108GB of system RAM, use int8 kv and squeeze more users