Depth Anything 3 now runs as pure C++/ggml (ggml)... . No Python, no PyTorch, no CUDA toolkit at inference, just one self-contained GGUF. It's faster than PyTorch on CPU! and ties speed on GPU. The CPU win came from the last place..I'd have looked. Quantized GGUF on Hugging Face🤗 Shout out to Georgi Gerganov for ggml (we are building a ggml-world!❤️) and to ByteDance Open Source and Depth Anything 3 authors Bingyi Kang Jun Hao Liew Donny Y. Chen !show more

parakeet.cpp: native C++/ggml (ggml) inference for NVIDIA AI Developer's... Parakeet, one of the best speech-to-text models out there, from the LocalAI team. Every Parakeet model (TDT/CTC/RNNT/hybrid + cache-aware streaming), byte-for-byte identical output to NeMo, now running anywhere with no Python and even a bit faster, on CPU and GPU. Quantized GGUF on Hugging Face 🤗 Huge thanks to Georgi Gerganov for ggml and to NVIDIA AI Developer for releasing Parakeet! 🧵show more

You don't need a GPU for fast studio grade... voice cloning anymore. Qwen3 TTS (1.7B Q4_K_M) + mainline llama.cpp is officially the fastest way to generate zero shot voice clones using 100% pure CPU execution. Following up on my last post where we ran the Q8 model on a GPU, we just took local C++ voice synthesis a massive step further. The open source community quantized Alibaba's SOTA Qwen3 TTS model down to Q4_K_M GGUF, completely freeing local audio pipelines from dedicated graphics hardware. Here is the real world benchmark and hardware breakdown of running SOTA voice cloning on CPU: # Architecture & Model Setup Using Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-Q4_K_M.gguf paired with the 8 bit multimodal projector (mmproj-Q8_0.gguf), llama.cpp executes the entire pipeline in pure C++. No PyTorch, no CUDA dependencies, and no VRAM bottlenecks. # Real-World Memory Footprint - Baseline RAM: 1.6 GB system idle. - Peak Generation RAM: 8 GB RAM during active voice synthesis. - Requirement: Any basic machine with at least 8 GB of system RAM can run this easily. # Real World CPU Benchmarks - Google Colab Free Tier (Throttled 2 Core CPU): Synthesizes a 5 sec studio quality audio clip (~8 words) in 45 seconds. - Modern Consumer CPU (Intel i5/i7 13th/14th Gen or AMD Ryzen 7000/9000): generation should drop to 5 to 20 seconds (nearly 1:1 real-time generation speed!). # Zero Shot Voice Cloning Quality Pass any 5 to 20 second .wav audio sample to the C++ engine using the --tts-speaker-file flag. It yields clean, natural sounding cloned speech with virtually zero quality loss compared to unquantized FP16 weights. To make testing seamless, I built an updated zero config Google Colab notebook. It pulls the official pre built llama.cpp CPU binaries (zero compilation time!) launches a live Gradio web app right in your browser. Record a 5 second clip from your mic (or drop a .mp3, .wav file), type text, and generate cloned audio on CPU. Native C++ audio models are making edge based, offline AI voice agents a reality. Links to the free Q4 CPU Colab notebook and the Q4_K_M GGUF HuggingFace repository are in the replies below! Which models have you been running on your CPUs? What CPU hardware are you using for local inference?show more

llama.cpp isn't just for text LLMs anymore. Pure C++... zero shot voice cloning just officially landed in mainline. Text generation was only step one. If you’re building autonomous local AI agents, real time voice assistants, or edge workflows, instant low latency audio is the missing piece. Thanks to PR #26254, Alibaba’s state of the art Qwen3 TTS model family is now natively supported directly inside the llama.cpp repository under the multimodal (mtmd) framework. No Python bloat. No massive PyTorch CUDA overhead. Just raw, hyper optimized C++ running GGUF voice weights. Here is why this native update is a massive deal for the open source local AI stack: # Multimodal Architecture (.gguf + mmproj) Qwen3-TTS splits the workload between the base language model backbone and a multimodal projection adapter. llama.cpp handles this using the llama-tts binary, mapping the text model alongside its --mmproj projector to process audio tokens seamlessly. # Zero Shot Voice Cloning in Seconds You don't need fine tuning or massive dataset training. Feed the C++ engine a single 5 to 10 second .wav audio sample using the --tts-speaker-file flag, and it accurately clones the exact timbre, tone, and accent on the fly. # Real World T4 GPU Benchmark & Resource FootprintRunning the 1.7B Base model in 8-bit quantization (Q8_0): - VRAM Footprint: ~7 GB peak VRAM during active zero-shot cloning. - Audio Quality: Studio grade, natural-sounding voice output in seconds. • - Execution: Direct execution via native compiled binaries or sub process calls. # Coming Next to llama-server (PR #26603) Beyond CLI execution, a native POST /tts HTTP endpoint is currently being added to llama-server, which will soon allow you to trigger voice generation directly via standard REST API requests! # quick note on Colab compilation: Because this code was merged into mainline very recently, pre-built third-party binaries haven't fully caught up yet. Compiling llama-tts directly from source on Google Colab's free CPU instance can take about 1 hour (or ~1-2 minutes if targeting single GPU arch like -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=75). Be patient during the build step, or compile it locally on your own rig for instant execution! To test this out yourself, I built a zero config Google Colab notebook that compiles llama.cpp, downloads the Q8_0 GGUF files from HuggingFace, and spins up an interactive Gradio Studio UI so you can record/upload 3 second clips and clone voices in real time. Stop sleeping on native C++ audio. The era of bulky Python audio pipelines is officially over. Links to the free Google Colab notebook and the official ggml org GGUF HuggingFace model repository are in the replies below! available in q4 and q8 both variants, 1 GB and 1.85 GBs respectively (requires additional ~500MB mmproj gguf) Are you building local voice agents yet? What does your current audio stack look like? Drop your setups below!show more

Holy shit... Microsoft open sourced an inference framework that... runs a 100B parameter LLM on a single CPU. It's called BitNet. And it does what was supposed to be impossible. No GPU. No cloud. No $10K hardware setup. Just your laptop running a 100-billion parameter model at human reading speed. Here's how it works: Every other LLM stores weights in 32-bit or 16-bit floats. BitNet uses 1.58 bits. Weights are ternary just -1, 0, or +1. That's it. No floats. No expensive matrix math. Pure integer operations your CPU was already built for. The result: - 100B model runs on a single CPU at 5-7 tokens/second - 2.37x to 6.17x faster than llama.cpp on x86 - 82% lower energy consumption on x86 CPUs - 1.37x to 5.07x speedup on ARM (your MacBook) - Memory drops by 16-32x vs full-precision models The wildest part: Accuracy barely moves. BitNet b1.58 2B4T their flagship model was trained on 4 trillion tokens and benchmarks competitively against full-precision models of the same size. The quantization isn't destroying quality. It's just removing the bloat. What this actually means: - Run AI completely offline. Your data never leaves your machine - Deploy LLMs on phones, IoT devices, edge hardware - No more cloud API bills for inference - AI in regions with no reliable internet The model supports ARM and x86. Works on your MacBook, your Linux box, your Windows machine. 27.4K GitHub stars. 2.2K forks. Built by Microsoft Research. 100% Open Source. MIT License.show more

They were building in stealth for 2 years, I... was building in stealth for 2 hours… Happy to open source Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD, 5x faster on-device inference for JSON workloads that need to be type-safe. ⚡️Demo below on a M4 MacBook⚡️ every LLM has the ability to efficiently batch inference every key of a JSON at the same time and generate probabilities from a set of possible categories. No new training required, but it’s easy to optimize if you need! On hugging face now!show more

THIS ENGINEER SKIPPED 7,862 WORDS OF AI ROADMAP AND... SHIPPED ON A WEEKEND a Pi Zero 2W, an IMX500 camera and a solar panel, that's the whole stack inference runs on-chip so there's no cloud, no latency and no monthly bill Spotted Dove at 0.95, King Parrot at 0.88, runs forever on sun code is open source and the 3D files are free, you just print the case and buy the parts and it works better than most paid wildlife monitoring services out there full video: code (open source): 3D print files: solar power board: save this so you actually have everything in one place when you decide to build itshow more

First fully ML-framework-free 3D Gaussian Splatting implementation in LichtFeld... Studio. I’ve completed the migration of the full training pipeline to a custom CUDA-based tensor library. No PyTorch, no LibTorch, no autograd. Every gradient is implemented by hand, either through CUDA kernels or minimal abstractions on top. This makes it the first full training setup for 3D Gaussian Splatting with zero dependencies on existing ML frameworks. It’s not just about independence, it's about control! We now manage every byte of GPU memory, which opens the door to tighter optimization and finer performance tuning. The framework footprint is minimal, without pulling in gigabytes of ML runtime code that was never designed for real-time or graphics-driven applications. A few modules, such as the metrics and 3DGUT interfaces, are still being ported, and some operations are temporarily naïve, so performance is not yet on par with master. But this refactor lays the groundwork for: - A fully self-contained binary - Fine-grained memory optimization - Easier experimentation without the weight of an ML stack We’re getting close.show more

90% of "AI developers" just download pre packaged GGUF... files from Hugging Face, hit run, and call it a day. The top 10% know how to pull the raw safetensors, run the math, and quantize massive models into Q4_K_M themselves. If you think llama.cpp can only execute models, you’re missing the best part of the open source ecosystem. It’s a high performance optimization suite. Manually stripping 69% of the VRAM footprint off a brand new model architecture is where real infrastructure value is made. If you want to actually master local inference and deploy models like Google’s massive Gemma 4 12B it on consumer NVIDIA hardware using llama.cpp, you need to learn this pipeline. Let's build it. I just took the raw 22.7 GB Gemma 4 baseline and manually compressed it down to a 7.02 GB Q4_K_M GGUF artifact using llama.cpp. That is a 69% reduction in footprint. No quality loss. No VRAM bottlenecks. Just native, hardware accelerated C++ inference running a full 2,50,000 token context window on a dual NVIDIA Tesla T4 setup. Stop melting your VRAM on unoptimized weights and stop relying on other people's pipelines. Own your stack. I mapped this entire architecture from dynamic binary fetching to raw quantization and real time GPU streaming into a single, bulletproof notebook. Notebook link is in the comments below. Bookmark this blueprint for your next deployment and tell me which quantization works best for your workflow and model.show more

Disappointed with your ICLR paper being rejected? Ten years... ago today, Sergey and I finished training some of the first end-to-end neutral nets for robot control 🤖 We submitted the paper to RSS on January 23, 2015. It was rejected for being "incremental" and "unlikely to have much impact" Our resubmission to NeurIPS was also rejected It now has >4,000 citations (and more importantly, end-to-end training is widely accepted!) It's also cool to think about what's changed and what's the same -- - The network was 92k parameters and trained on ~15 minutes of data - The code was a combination of matlab, caffe, ROS, a custom CUDA kernel for speed, and a low-level 20 Hz controller in C++, all talking to each other. ROS+matlab was as bad as it sounds. - We pre-trained the encoder and did inference off-board on a workstation with a larger GPU. - We were paranoid about varying lighting messing up the network, so we did all the experiments after sunset (so long nights running experiments on the robot past 3 am) Now, we have manipulation policies that are far more dextrous, far more generalizable, and maybe on the cusp of breaking into the real world. :) (the paper:show more

Imagine having a ping pong robot! 🏓 Researchers and... developers building physical AI: meet Reachy 2 from Pollen Robotics, an open-source, humanoid robot for real-world experimentation. It’s a bimanual mobile manipulator: each 7-DOF arm mimics human proportions and can lift up to 3 kg, giving dexterity for object handling. It can be controlled with Python and ROS2 Humble, or go straight into VR teleoperation, use a headset to move Reachy’s arms, hands, and head, and see through its cameras as if you’re in the robot’s own body. Want it to move around? A mobile base with three omnidirectional wheels, rich sensors, and LiDAR lets Reachy 2 navigate and explore its surroundings smoothly. 🗺️ Under the hood, it’s powered by a CPU system that’s ready for machine learning, perfect for loading AI frameworks and testing new models from Hugging Face directly on the robot. Keep making robots more, and more accessible Pollen team! ... and keep making more open source models to make robots more mainstream clem 🤗!show more

My stream has crashed every stream Ive done for... the last year and a half. I dont know what to do and im about to quit. I have a job- just my hobby is being destroyed ): Here are more videos. Please help. -started with OBS and now a bit less crashes in SLOBS - Nothing in the logs / event viewer says anything is wrong. - Ive reseated my ram. - All gamebar/overlays are off. - no overheating (CPU 38°, Mobo 42°, GPU 53°) -6 month old thermal paste -3 month old bios - all updated firmware on everything/storage/mobo/ram - power hub USB - no plugins - HAGS off - nvidia audio devices off - max game fps set to 60 /playing at low quality - NO overclocking - meld wont work - anker surge protector+2 outlets I cant play games on my powerhouse of a PC, only Playstation is working to avoid lags. Still crashes though. Specs belowshow more

🚨 SHOCKED PASSENGERS WATCH A MAN TURN A COMMERCIAL... FLIGHT INTO AN LED RAVE - AND NO ONE STOPPED HIM Passengers aboard a American Airlines flight from Chicago to Miami say a man stood up mid-flight and started gloving, hand-dancing with flashing LED gloves, and playing music out loud while the plane was cruising at 30,000 feet. With the cabin lights dimmed, the glowing gloves lit up the aisle and reflected across the ceiling and seats. Phones came out almost immediately. Some passengers laughed nervously, others looked stunned, and a few appeared genuinely freaked out watching it unfold while strapped into their seats. What’s throwing people off isn’t just the performance, it’s that there was no announcement and no immediate crew response. For several moments, it simply continued, turning a routine flight into something no one expected and no one asked for. Should this have been stopped immediately or are we normalizing anything goes on planes now?show more

🚨 Alibaba just open sourced a GUI agent that... lives inside your webpage and controls it with natural language. It's called Page Agent and it's not a browser extension. It's pure JavaScript no Python, no Puppeteer, no headless browser, no screenshots. Just one script tag and your web app understands natural language. Here's what it actually does: → Embed it with a single tag or npm install → Control any web interface with plain English commands → Text-based DOM manipulation no OCR, no vision models needed → Bring your own LLM (GPT, Claude, Qwen, anything) → Ships a built-in UI with human-in-the-loop support → Turn 20-click ERP/CRM workflows into one sentence → Optional Chrome extension for multi-tab agent tasks → Works on any web app SaaS, admin panels, internal tools Companies are charging $30/month for AI copilots built on this exact idea. This is 3 lines of code. Your users. Your interface. The AI copilot layer for every web app just got open sourced. 1.6K stars. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)show more

Depth Any Video with Scalable Synthetic Data AI physicists... and chemists continue to make strides in depth estimation from video. Check out this new paper featuring some impressive examples. See the thread for more details (unfortunately no code yet). Abstract: Video depth estimation has long been hindered by the scarcity of consistent and scalable ground truth data, leading to inconsistent and unreliable results. In this paper, we introduce Depth Any Video, a model that tackles the challenge through two key innovations. First, we develop a scalable synthetic data pipeline, capturing real-time video depth data from diverse game environments, yielding 40,000 video clips of 5-second duration, each with precise depth annotations. Second, we leverage the powerful priors of generative video diffusion models to handle real-world videos effectively, integrating advanced techniques such as rotary position encoding and flow matching to further enhance flexibility and efficiency. Unlike previous models, which are limited to fixed-length video sequences, our approach introduces a novel mixed-duration training strategy that handles videos of varying lengths and performs robustly across different frame rates 0 - even on single frames. At inference, we propose a depth interpolation method that enables our model to infer high-resolution video depth across sequences of up to 150 frames. Our model outperforms all previous generative depth models in terms of spatial accuracy and temporal consistency.show more

Google Translate is cooked after this. A developer built... a local AI translation engine that runs 40 languages entirely on your own laptop. It's called LibreTranslate. No API key. No usage limits. No sending your documents to Google's servers. You install it once. It runs forever. Here's what it handles: → Paste text. Translated instantly. → Drop in a file. Outputs the translated version. → Point it at a URL. Returns the page in your language. → Build it into your own app via its local REST API. The speed is not the story. The privacy is. Google Translate reads every sentence you paste into it. Legal contracts. Medical records. Internal emails. Client documents. Every word goes to their servers and stays there. LibreTranslate runs entirely offline. Nothing leaves your machine. Ever. The numbers: → 40 languages supported → Runs on CPU -- no GPU needed → Self-hosted in under 5 minutes → REST API built in for developers → 10K+ stars on GitHub 100% open source. MIT licensed. Price: $0. Google charges nothing for Translate either but it charges you something else. GitHub:show more

Free NVIDIA GPU with 16 GB VRAM GPU for... Running Local LLMs! If you want to master local LLMs but you're waiting until you can afford a $1,500 GPU, you're honestly not going to make it. The open source AI ecosystem is moving way too fast for you to wait on your budget to catch up. Especially when you can build a bleeding edge inference engine from scratch right now, completely for free. You don't need a heavy local rig to start. Google is literally letting you use an enterprise grade NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU for $0/hour. At standard cloud computing rates (~$0.20/hr), Google Colab’s 4 hour daily free tier hands you roughly $24 worth of data center tier GPU compute every single month. And most people just waste it. Let’s talk about the hardware you get access to for free. The NVIDIA Tesla T4 is an absolute workhorse: - Architecture: NVIDIA Turing (TU104) - VRAM: 16GB GDDR6 (320 GB/s bandwidth) - Compute: 320 Tensor Cores | 2560 CUDA Cores - Performance: 130 TOPS INT8 | 8.1 TFLOPS FP32 - Power: Sipping energy at a max 70W TDP This is the exact same hardware I used to run DeepMind's Gemma 4 26B A4B QAT MoE at a 250,000 context window without a single Out Of Memory (OOM) crash. If you have a web browser and 10 minutes, you have everything you need. I’ve put together a fully documented, cell by cell Google Colab notebook that teaches you exactly how to do this. Here is what the notebook actually teaches you: - How to provision an Ubuntu Linux environment with CUDA 13.0 and verify your driver stack. - How to pull the source code and compile the latest llama.cpp C++ binaries from scratch, specifically optimizing the build for your exact GPU using the -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=native flag. - How to directly download quantized local LLMs (GGUF format) straight from HuggingFace using the CLI. - How to manage 16GB VRAM limits, offload neural network layers to the GPU, and push massive context windows. Compile raw llama.cpp, ollama run a model, or spin up the LM Studio CLI. Pick whatever stack you are comfortable with. just start building. No hardware. No credit card. No excuses. Bookmark this post right now so you don't lose the tutorial. Even if you don't have time to run it today, you are going to want this workflow in your engineering toolkit. The link to the free Colab Notebook is in the comments below. Lemme know if you need more tutorials like this.show more

🚨 Anthropic committed up to 1M TPU chips for... Claude. Openai is leasing TPUs for chatgpt inference. Here's How kernels work on TPUs (deep dive 2/6 by emi) pallas is Google's answer to kernel writing. a python kernel SDK built on JAX. still very experimental (jax.experimental.pallas). on TPU it compiles through mosaic; on GPU it lowers to triton. if you know CUDA, the syntax will feel familiar but the execution model is completely different. in CUDA, grid=(4,4) launches 16 blocks running simultaneously across SMs. in pallas, those 16 iterations run one after another in lexicographic order. no threads. no warps. no blocks. no occupancy tuning. a TPU is a sequential machine with a very wide vector register — more like a CPU than a GPU. performance comes from width: a 128x128 systolic array doing matmul and an 8x128 SIMD vector unit doing everything else. maximum parallelism on chip: 2, one per TensorCore in megacore mode. three concepts replace CUDA's thread/block/grid hierarchy. Refs are mutable memory references. because execution is sequential, each iteration safely accumulates without atomics. in CUDA you'd need atomics or a separate reduction pass. the memory model is also very different from NVIDIA's. zero hardware caches. VMEM is 32-128 MiB of software-managed scratchpad — 500-1000x larger than GPU shared memory per SM. all data must be explicitly DMA'd from HBM to VMEM before any computation touches it. four levels: HBM → VMEM → VREGs → MXU/VPU, plus SMEM for scalar control data. every byte of data movement is your responsibility. this is like CUDA shared memory except it's 500x bigger and there's no cache fallback. pipelining is mandatory. without double-buffering HBM→VMEM transfers, the MXU just stalls waiting for data. this is the single most important optimization on TPU. and because grid execution is sequential and deterministic, consecutive iterations that need the same input block skip the redundant HBM transfer automatically, impossible on GPU where block execution order is undefined. the compilation pipeline is unlike anything in this series: python → jaxpr → stableHLO → XLA HLO (71+ optimization passes) → LLO (78+ passes) → 322-bit VLIW bundles. the compiler packs instructions for scalar, vector, matrix, and DMA units into a single 322-bit word. everything in that bundle executes in parallel, with no runtime scheduling.show more

A guy in a kimono made $788,000 on Polymarket... in 3 months without leaving his chair His nickname is gabagool22. A guy in a kimono, sitting in a messy room full of monitors at 3 AM with classical music playing on the TV behind him. The clock on the wall jumps from 02:26 to 06:47 in one timelapse. He's not betting on elections. He's not guessing the next Fed move. He's trading Bitcoin 15-minute binary markets on Polymarket. Profile: 24,525 markets traded. Over $124 million in total volume. Win rate sitting at 99.52%. Profit in roughly 3 months: $788,482. The trick is, he doesn't actually predict anything. He has no idea where Bitcoin is going in the next 15 minutes. He doesn't need to. He just waits for the YES and NO prices on a binary market to drift out of balance, buys the cheap side, hedges with the other, and closes when the spread normalizes. Pure arbitrage. No direction. No emotion. An algorithm watches thousands of micro-markets at once. He just sits there, switches monitors, drinks tea, and lets the bot click for him. One guy in a kimono. No sleep. $788K in the bank.show more

🚨BREAKING: Google just merged Gemini and NotebookLM into one... unified workspace and it changes everything about how you use AI for deep work. It's called Notebooks in Gemini and it's the personal knowledge base that power users have been begging for. You create a notebook for a project, drop in your files, PDFs, and documents, give Gemini custom instructions, and every chat you have stays organized in one place. No more hunting through old conversations. No more re-uploading the same files every session. The wildest part is the sync. Anything you add in Gemini automatically appears in NotebookLM. Anything you add in NotebookLM automatically appears in Gemini. One source of truth. Two powerful apps. Zero friction switching between them. So you can start a research notebook in Gemini, ask it questions all week, then flip to NotebookLM to generate a Cinematic Video Overview from the same material. Next morning, open Gemini and ask it to write a full report on exactly what you just watched. That workflow used to take three apps and a lot of copy-pasting. Now it's one notebook. Rolling out this week to Google AI Ultra, Pro, and Plus subscribers on web. Mobile and free users coming soon. What do you think?show more