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Salvatore Sanfilippo, the programmer known as antirez who created Redis, has released ds4, a local inference engine for running DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO models. The C-based engine targets Apple Metal, CUDA and ROCm, letting users run the DeepSeek models on their own hardware across NVIDIA, AMD and Apple Silicon GPUs. The project is drawing attention in open-source AI circles.
- 2Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 125B claimed to run fast on RTX 4090●Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
A project called Strata, shared on GitHub, claims it can run Qwen's 3.8 Flash Next 125-billion-parameter model on a single consumer RTX 4090 GPU at roughly 100 tokens per second. If verified, that would make a very large language model practical on high-end home hardware without a data center. The claim is drawing attention among developers interested in local AI inference, though independent confirmation of the speed figures has not been established.
- 3180B-parameter LLM runs locally on a laptop without a GPU●GPU 없이 소비자용 노트북에서 180억 파라미터 LLM을 구동하는 POCKET-Darwin-180B. 4비트 GGUF 양자화로 360GB→111GB 압축, 약 $1,400 하드웨어로 로컬 추론 가능. # ai #
A project called POCKET-Darwin-180B is drawing attention for running a 180-billion-parameter language model on consumer hardware with no discrete GPU. Using 4-bit GGUF quantization, the model is compressed from roughly 360GB down to 111GB, enabling local inference on hardware costing about $1,400. Commenters in AI and open-source circles are highlighting it as a sign that frontier-scale models may soon run off the cloud.
- 4Nvidia's Vera Rubin Chip Delivers 3x Serving Gains, Analyst Says▼Cam Quilici: Nvidia's Vera Rubin Delivers 3x Serving Gains, Making Open-Source Inference a "Money Printer"
Cam Quilici says Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin platform delivers roughly three times the serving performance gains, which he argues makes running open-source AI inference highly profitable, calling it a "money printer". The claim is drawing attention in AI infrastructure circles as developers weigh the economics of serving open models on next-generation Nvidia hardware.
- 5Developer Breaks Down llama.cpp Configuration for Qwen 3.8B●Understanding My llama.cpp Qwen 3.8 Configuration I've been tuning llama.cpp for local AI development, and the command l
A developer has published a parameter-by-parameter walkthrough of their llama.cpp setup for running the Qwen 3 8B model locally, explaining what each command-line flag does and how the options are tuned for maximum performance on their hardware. The guide is aimed at people running AI models on their own machines, where cryptic command-line options often make local inference setups hard to understand and reproduce.
- 6UC Berkeley and FuriosaAI Propose HBF for LLM Serving●HBF for High-Throughput LLM Serving (UC Berkeley, FuriosaAI)
Researchers at UC Berkeley, working with chipmaker FuriosaAI, have published work on HBF, a memory approach aimed at high-throughput serving of large language models. The piece, carried by Semiconductor Engineering, focuses on how new memory architectures could ease the bandwidth and cost bottlenecks that limit LLM inference at scale. The work is being followed by readers tracking hardware innovation for AI infrastructure.
- 7TensorFold claims up to 3x faster LLM inference on Mac and DGX Spark●シタン先生もpythonについて話していました Mac・DGX SparkでLLM推論を最大3倍高速化する「TensorFold」の概要｜npaka https:// note.com/npaka/n/n3d3e09549bdd # App
A new tool called TensorFold is being described as able to speed up LLM inference by up to three times on Apple Macs and Nvidia's DGX Spark hardware. A Japanese-language explainer by npaka on Note is circulating, and comments reference discussions of Python in relation to the tool. The claim is drawing attention among AI developers interested in running large language models locally.
Repos
- antirez/ds4 DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm