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[Discussion] A 5KB pure x86-64 assembly engine for Gemma-2B (FP16, 4.6 tok/s on CPU)
Hi everyone, Sharing a personal project exploring the minimal bare-metal footprint required to run an autoregressive LLM. Instead of relying on large runtimes or compiler abstractions, I wrote an in
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago
Least sycophantic modern open LLM?
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 2 hours ago
Is all the work that's being put into Qwen3.8 Flash Next going to set us up for a very quick uplift to Qwen4?
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 3 hours ago
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Simon Willison · about 5 hours ago
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