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Verified Sep 2026

LLM inference in pure C++

The pioneer of local GGUF inference: runs quantized models everywhere from laptops to servers.

Georgi Gerganov's C/C++ inference engine that put LLMs on laptops: GGUF quantized models on CPU/Metal/CUDA. The substrate beneath Ollama and LM Studio

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Developers running LLM inference locally on consumer hardware with quantised GGUF models.

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