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My local LLM kept thinking in circles, and the fix was downloading a different version of the same model

The wrong quantization turned my local LLM into a circular thinker ...

[Weekly GPU News] How to load massive models? From llama.cpp MoE cache to Maya (321B) and Abyss (284B)

LLM News" column! Originally, this Note was started to share information mainly about ComfyUI and video-related multi-GPU ...

I wanted to run the 284B DeepSeek V4 Flash on a single GPU, so I forked Maya and created 'Abyss'

Yesterday, I wrote about installing Project Maya, which allows running the 321B GLM-5.3-Flash on a single GPU. The next morning, I decided I wanted to run DeepSeek V4 Flash on the same PC. Neither ...
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I tried a new 8B local LLM, and its design might be the biggest shift since DeepSeek R1

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...
XDA Developers

Most people use Ollama or llama.cpp for local LLMs, but these are the tools I switch to when it gets serious

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...
Forkast News

llm-d 1.0 Ships the Serving Layer DeepSeek Withheld. The Sponsors Sell the Managed Version.

DeepSeek gave away its engine but kept the KV cache, disaggregation, and load balancing. llm-d 1.0 ships all three free and ...
MacStories

Testing DeepSeek R1-0528 on the M3 Ultra Mac Studio and Installing Local GGUF Models with Ollama on macOS

DeepSeek released an updated version of their popular R1 reasoning model (version 0528) with – according to the company – increased benchmark performance, reduced hallucinations, and native support ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling ...
ZDNet

My go-to LLM tool just dropped a super simple Mac and PC app for local AI – why you should try it

The Ollama team just released a native GUI for Mac and Windows, making it easy to run AI on your own computer and pull whichever LLM you prefer. If you use AI, there are several reasons why you would ...
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LLM API pricing climbs as Alibaba lifts DeepSeek rates

A price tracker says Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash rates. Here is how founders can stress test their AI budgets. The post ...