| 1 | Feb 24, '25 | Today I was sent the following cool demo: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave | 1298× | 17.6M | 90k | 13k | 38k |
| 2 | Mar 26, '23 | Introducing LLaMA voice chat! 🦙 You can run this locally on an M1 Pro | 124× | 1.7M | 7.8k | 1.3k | 3.6k |
| 3 | Aug 31, '23 | Full F16 precision 34B Code Llama at >20 t/s on M2 Ultra | 85.6× | 1.2M | 2.1k | 244 | 676 |
| 4 | Feb 24, '25 | The developers (Anton and Boris) used the ggwave library to make the AIs communicate faster over a phone call | 83× | 1.1M | 4k | 243 | 1k |
| 5 | Jun 6, '23 | I've started a company: From a fun side project just a few months ago, ggml has now become a useful library and framework for machine learning with a great open-source community | 80.5× | 1.1M | 3.3k | 358 | 664 |
| 6 | Jan 27, '25 | pack it up boys, it's over | 52.1× | 706k | 7.3k | 590 | 2.6k |
| 7 | Sep 7, '23 | Casually running a 180B parameter LLM on M2 Ultra | 50.5× | 683k | 3.7k | 367 | 850 |
| 8 | Feb 24, '25 | The "gibberlink" project is hosted here: They won 1st place in a hackaton competition! Congrats! | 45× | 609k | 2.3k | 127 | 706 |
| 9 | Feb 24, '25 | You can actually decode the audio messages from the video above using the waver webpage: | 32.8× | 444k | 1.1k | 58 | 264 |
| 10 | Mar 27, '23 | LLaMA voice chat + Siri TTS This example is now truly 100% offline since we are now using the built-in Siri text-to-speech available on MacOS through the "say" command | 30.5× | 413k | 2.4k | 344 | 867 |
| 11 | Jun 4, '23 | The future of on-device inference is ggml + Apple Silicon You heard it here first! | 25.6× | 346k | 1.6k | 166 | 298 |
| 12 | Oct 10, '23 | 👀 What is this black magic!? | 22.8× | 309k | 981 | 127 | 552 |
| 13 | Aug 6, '25 | LMStudio are using the upstream ggml implementation which is significantly better and well optimized. Looking at ollama's modifications in ggml, they have too much branching in the | 22.5× | 305k | 1.4k | 98 | 435 |
| 14 | Mar 5, '23 | I think I can make 4-bit LLaMA-65B inference run on a 64 GB M1 Pro 🤔 Speed should be somewhere around 2 tokens/sec. Is this useful for anything? | 21.6× | 293k | 430 | 17 | 92 |
| 15 | Mar 10, '23 | Simultaneously running LLaMA-7B (left) + Whisper Small (right) on M1 Pro | 20.9× | 284k | 1.4k | 173 | 413 |
| 16 | Jul 29, '23 | guys it’s real | 20.7× | 281k | 1.6k | 60 | 21 |
| 17 | Mar 22, '24 | Causally running Grok-1 at home | 20.5× | 277k | 1.6k | 149 | 294 |
| 18 | Mar 3, '25 | Here is another Gibberlink experiment: Two AI agents autonomously encrypt their audio chat (video by Anton Pidkuiko) | 20× | 271k | 2.2k | 318 | 1.2k |
| 19 | Jul 23, '23 | llama2.c running in a web-page Compiled with Emscripten and modified the code to predict one token per render pass. The page auto-loads 50MB of model data - sorry about that 😄 | 19.8× | 268k | 844 | 136 | 321 |
| 20 | Sep 5, '23 | sam.cpp 👀 Inference of Meta's Segment Anything Model on the CPU Project by @YavorGI - powered by | 19.6× | 265k | 1.9k | 262 | 684 |
| 21 | Jan 28, '25 | DeepSeek-R1 on Mac Studio 192GB 🪄 | 19.2× | 260k | 1.5k | 152 | 762 |
| 22 | Aug 24, '23 | Here are some inference numbers for Code Llama on M2 Ultra at different quantum levels using latest llama.cpp pp - prompt processing tg - text generation Code Llama 7B | 18.9× | 256k | 527 | 60 | 138 |
| 23 | Jan 20, '25 | Make your Mac think 🧠 Tomorrow I'll show you how to enable speculative decoding for extra speed. | 17.5× | 237k | 931 | 76 | 592 |
| 24 | Dec 9, '23 | ggml will soon run on billion devices @apple don't sleep on it 🙃 | 17.2× | 232k | 1.2k | 120 | 159 |
| 25 | Nov 4, '25 | A detailed look into the new WebUI of llama.cpp | 17× | 231k | 751 | 79 | 276 |
| 26 | Jan 21, '25 | Make your Mac think faster 🧠🧠 Tomorrow I'll show you how to cancel your copilot subscription. | 16.5× | 224k | 1.2k | 112 | 1.2k |
| 27 | Mar 11, '23 | Just added support for all LLaMA models I'm out of disk space, so if someone can give this a try for 33B and 65BB would be great 😄 See updated instructions in the Readme Here is L | 15.8× | 214k | 970 | 128 | 325 |
| 28 | Aug 7, '23 | Let’s see what this rock can do | 15.5× | 210k | 1.3k | 24 | 64 |
| 29 | Nov 27, '23 | Wrote a short tutorial for setting up llama.cpp on AWS instances For example, you can use one of the cheapest 16GB VRAM (NVIDIA T4) instances to serve a quantum Mistral 7B model to | 15.1× | 204k | 1.4k | 166 | 1.2k |
| 30 | Jul 12, '23 | ggtag : data-over-sound is back ! Please checkout our latest geeky side project -- An e-paper badge that can be programmed with sound Here is how it works 🔊 | 15× | 203k | 2k | 232 | 588 |
| 31 | May 28, '24 | llama.cpp is now in Homebrew Core 🍺 | 14.6× | 198k | 2.2k | 216 | 402 |
| 32 | Apr 1, '23 | Announcing the Local LLaMA podcast 🎙️🦙 In today's episode we have LLaMA, GGaMA, SSaMA and RRaMA joining us to discuss the future of AI | 14.4× | 195k | 1.3k | 178 | 392 |
| 33 | Mar 19, '23 | The llama.cpp repo is buzzing with activity today. Here are some highlights Added Alpaca model support and usage instructions | 14× | 190k | 912 | 70 | 240 |
| 34 | Aug 11, '25 | whisper.cpp is coming to ffmpeg | 13.1× | 178k | 1.5k | 171 | 504 |
| 35 | Apr 15, '23 | whisper.cpp v1.3.0 now with Core ML support Currently, the Encoder runs on the ANE, while the Decoder remains on the CPU. Check the linked PR 566 for implementation details and usa | 12.9× | 175k | 735 | 114 | 180 |
| 36 | Nov 21, '23 | Native whisper.cpp server with OAI-like API is now available $ make server && ./server This is a very convenient way to run an efficient local transcription service locally | 12.7× | 172k | 1.2k | 146 | 789 |
| 37 | Jun 23, '25 | LlamaBarn (sneak peek 👀) | 12.7× | 172k | 1k | 58 | 306 |
| 38 | Dec 11, '23 | Adding support for the new Mixtral models Runs on CPU, CUDA and Metal with quantization support and partial GPU offloading. Very interesting architecture to play with! | 12× | 162k | 1.3k | 138 | 364 |
| 39 | Jun 23, '23 | shower thought : drop the position embeddings, rewrite the transformer using complex numbers, encode the position information in the complex phase ref : see how MRI phase encoding | 12× | 162k | 595 | 22 | 162 |
| 40 | Mar 28, '23 | llama.cpp just got access to the new Copilot for Pull Request technical preview by @github Just add tags like "copilot:all" / "copilot:summary" / "copilot:walkthrough" to your PR c | 11.9× | 161k | 941 | 88 | 218 |
| 41 | Aug 19, '25 | The ultimate guide for using gpt-oss with llama.cpp - Runs on any device - Supports NVIDIA, Apple, AMD and others - Support for efficient CPU offloading - The most lightweight infe | 10.6× | 143k | 723 | 95 | 508 |
| 42 | Nov 21, '23 | Here is how to deploy and serve any LLM on HF with a single command in less than 3 minutes with llama.cpp $ bash -c "$(curl -s )" | 10.6× | 143k | 828 | 133 | 746 |
| 43 | Dec 15, '23 | Running some LLM benches on iPhone 13 Mini This is 1.1B TinyLlama. Speed looks quite reasonable. Wonder what would be some cool applications that we can try out 🤔 P.S. Forget abou | 10.3× | 140k | 698 | 63 | 274 |
| 44 | Jun 25, '23 | Took the time to prepare a ggml development roadmap in the form of a Github Project This sets the priorities for the short/mid term and will offer a good way for everyone to keep t | 10.1× | 137k | 472 | 38 | 99 |
| 45 | Mar 14, '23 | Here is what a properly built llama.cpp looks like Running 7B on 2 years old Pixel 5 at 1 token/sec. Would be interesting to see how an interactive session feels like | 10× | 136k | 432 | 63 | 87 |
| 46 | Apr 18, '23 | Initial low-rank adaptation support has been added to llama.cpp We now have the option to apply LoRA adapters to a base model at runtime. Lots of room for improvements and opens up | 9.8× | 132k | 523 | 81 | 107 |
| 47 | Mar 26, '23 | This is the prompt for anyone interested: | 9.3× | 126k | 408 | 48 | 138 |
| 48 | Jul 10, '23 | llama.cpp now supports distributed inference across multiple devices via MPI This is possible thanks to @EvMill's work. Looking for people to give this a try and attempt to run a 6 | 9.2× | 124k | 831 | 130 | 187 |
| 49 | Oct 23, '23 | llama.cpp server now support multimodal (LLaVA) 🎉 Huge shoutout to FSSRepo and monatis | 8.7× | 118k | 1.1k | 126 | 234 |
| 50 | Apr 3, '25 | Google is taking local AI to the next level with Gemma 3 QAT GGUF models Uncompromised quality with quantization-aware training and uncompromised on-device performance with ggml. T | 8.6× | 116k | 1.3k | 148 | 627 |
| 51 | Mar 10, '23 | Here is 4-bit inference of LLaMA-7B using ggml: Pure C/C++, runs on the CPU at 20 tokens/sec (M1 Pro) Generated text looks coherent, but quickly degrades - not sure if I have a bug | 8.6× | 116k | 704 | 118 | 246 |
| 52 | Mar 28, '23 | I'm thinking about making an open-source local iOS voice chat app running Whisper Base + 4-bit Cerebras-GPT 2.7B. Should be able to run quite real-time on newer iPhones Pretty sure | 8.6× | 116k | 702 | 39 | 112 |
| 53 | Jul 16, '23 | Very cool experiment by @chillgates_ Distributed MPI inference using llama.cpp with 6 Raspberry Pis - each one with 8GB RAM "sees" 1/6 of the entire 65B model. Inference starts aro | 8.4× | 114k | 417 | 70 | 127 |
| 54 | Aug 5, '25 | Llama.cpp supports the new gpt-oss model in native MXFP4 format The ggml inference engine (powering llama.cpp) can run the new gpt-oss model with all major backends, including CUDA | 8.4× | 114k | 1k | 139 | 334 |
| 55 | Apr 11, '23 | Will be cancelling my Github Copilot subscription soon 🙃 | 8.4× | 114k | 431 | 31 | 155 |
| 56 | Mar 14, '23 | I'm trying to figure out what this means Any ideas? | 8.4× | 114k | 486 | 31 | 23 |
| 57 | Jun 6, '23 | 2,3,4,5 and 6-bit quantization methods are now available in llama.cpp Efficient inference implementation with ARM NEON, AVX2 and CUDA - see sample numbers in the screenshots Big th | 8.1× | 109k | 547 | 73 | 104 |
| 58 | Oct 8, '23 | M2 Ultra serving Q8_0 LLaMA-v2 70B to 4 clients in parallel | 8.0× | 109k | 615 | 62 | 184 |
| 59 | Aug 31, '23 | The ggml roadmap is progressing as expected with a lot of infrastructural development already completed We now enter the more interesting phase of the project - applying the framew | 7.8× | 106k | 506 | 41 | 76 |
| 60 | Apr 4, '24 | Challenge accepted! 😀 | 7.7× | 104k | 537 | 32 | 68 |
| 61 | Sep 3, '23 | Experimenting with speculative decoding + grammar sampling This is an example of summarizing a short story into a structured JSON. We again utilize speculative decoding, but this t | 7.3× | 98k | 640 | 65 | 233 |
| 62 | Apr 11, '23 | Can't help but feel the AI hype is oriented in a non-optimal direction It's almost as if we had just discovered the FFT algorithm and instead of revolutionizing telecommunications, | 7.2× | 98k | 487 | 29 | 51 |
| 63 | Sep 25, '24 | Llama 3.2 3B & 1B GGUF | 7.0× | 94k | 426 | 80 | 123 |
| 64 | Oct 24, '23 | Serving 8 clients in parallel on A100 with llama.cpp Model: Codellama 7B F16 System prompt: 305 tokens Requests: 128 Max sequence length: 100 Continuous batching: enabled Average s | 6.8× | 92k | 575 | 61 | 163 |
| 65 | Aug 28, '25 | To run gpt-oss-20b on a 16GB Mac use these commands: brew install llama.cpp llama-server -hf ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF --n-cpu-moe 12 -fa -c 32768 --jinja --no-mmap Then open the b | 6.7× | 90k | 912 | 110 | 723 |
| 66 | Aug 28, '25 | gpt-oss is a great model IMO OpenAI showed us the blueprint for winning local AI: - Interleaved SWA - Small head sizes in the attention - Attention sinks - Mixture of Experts FFN - | 6.1× | 82k | 977 | 74 | 377 |
| 67 | Nov 15, '23 | whisper.cpp v1.5.0 | 6.0× | 81k | 564 | 68 | 117 |
| 68 | Nov 21, '23 | Very clever stuff! Will be adding a llama.cpp example soon | 5.9× | 80k | 433 | 37 | 154 |
| 69 | Mar 12, '23 | Interactive chat mode added to 🦙.cpp It actually works surprisingly well from the few tests that I tried! Kindly contributed by GH user Blackhole89 | 5.9× | 80k | 457 | 41 | 83 |
| 70 | Mar 29, '23 | I'm color-coding Whisper tokens based on their probs -- green means confident. All models behave in a similar way (first 3 images), except for Large V2. The probs are all over the | 5.8× | 79k | 425 | 27 | 116 |
| 71 | Jan 22, '25 | llama.vscode (powered by Qwen Coder) | 5.7× | 78k | 466 | 64 | 327 |
| 72 | Nov 2, '23 | llama.cpp is standing ground against the behemoths The CUDA backend is contained in a single C++ file so it allows for very easy deployment and custom modifications (pp - prefill, | 5.7× | 77k | 554 | 46 | 113 |
| 73 | May 28, '23 | The plan for adding full-fledged GPU support in ggml is starting to take shape Today I finally finished the ggml computation graph export / import functionality and demonstrated a | 5.6× | 76k | 421 | 59 | 75 |
| 74 | Mar 15, '24 | The GGUF file format is a great example of the cool things that an open-source community can achieve. Props to @philpax_ and everyone else involved in the design and implementation | 5.4× | 73k | 485 | 61 | 113 |
| 75 | Jul 4, '23 | whisper.cpp now supports @akashmjn's tinydiarize models These fine-tuned models offer experimental support for speaker segmentation by introducing special tokens for marking speake | 5.1× | 69k | 487 | 62 | 178 |
| 76 | Feb 21, '24 | Run @Google's Gemma Open Models with llama.cpp | 5.0× | 68k | 606 | 71 | 134 |
| 77 | May 23, '23 | Top quality post on r/LocalLLaMA today 😅 Btw, great subreddit! | 4.8× | 65k | 604 | 51 | 65 |
| 78 | Oct 21, '24 | llama.vim : Neovim plugin for local text completion (powered by llama.cpp) | 4.8× | 65k | 527 | 65 | 244 |
| 79 | Apr 5, '24 | GGUF My Repo by @huggingface Create quantum GGUF models fully online - quickly and secure. Thanks to @reach_vb, @pcuenq and team for creating this HF space! In the video below I gi | 4.8× | 65k | 439 | 84 | 247 |
| 80 | Sep 19, '23 | Initial tests with parallel decoding in llama.cpp A simulated server processing 64 client requests with 32 decoding streams on M2 Ultra. Supports hot-plugging of new sequences. Mod | 4.7× | 64k | 452 | 52 | 109 |
| 81 | Aug 25, '23 | ROCm support in llama.cpp 4 months community effort enables AMD devices to run quantum LLMs with high efficiency. Really great to see the strong collaboration in this work! | 4.6× | 62k | 431 | 61 | 53 |
| 82 | Mar 7, '23 | Progress update on adding Core ML support to whisper.cpp We can now run the small model with a 400ms time step quite efficiently thanks to evaluating the Encoder on the ANE | 4.5× | 61k | 469 | 41 | 122 |
| 83 | May 1, '23 | New release: whisper.cpp v1.4 - Added 4-bit, 5-bit and 8-bit integer quantization - Added partial GPU support via cuBLAS | 4.5× | 61k | 489 | 62 | 94 |
| 84 | Nov 2, '24 | ggml inference tech making its way into this week’s @apple M4 announcements is a great testament to this. IMO, Apple Silicon continues to be the best consumer-grade hardware for lo | 4.4× | 59k | 531 | 44 | 96 |
| 85 | Jan 27, '25 | jk we are just starting | 4.3× | 59k | 527 | 15 | 136 |
| 86 | Sep 12, '23 | Full GPU Metal inference with whisper.cpp This is the Medium model on M2 Ultra, greedy decoding | 4.3× | 58k | 542 | 51 | 121 |
| 87 | Oct 18, '23 | Some of llama.cpp's features | 4.2× | 57k | 464 | 34 | 83 |
| 88 | Jan 27, '25 | Here is the most cost effective way to deploy (the real) R1 in the cloud - use llama.cpp-powered inference endpoints @huggingface The @UnslothAI quantizations fit neatly in 4x L40S | 4.2× | 57k | 705 | 97 | 490 |
| 89 | Apr 8, '25 | Retweet if you want llama.cpp added here 👇 | 3.5× | 48k | 549 | 213 | 50 |
| 90 | Mar 21, '24 | llama.cpp releases now ship with pre-built macOS binaries This should reduce the entry barrier for llama.cpp on Apple devices Thanks to @huggingface for the friendly support 🙏 | 3.4× | 46k | 708 | 65 | 123 |
| 91 | Sep 3, '25 | VS Code adds support for custom OAI-compatible endpoints This a big win for local AI as it allows us to use any local model provider without vendor lock-in. Big thanks to the VS Co | 3.3× | 44k | 428 | 62 | 99 |
| 92 | Aug 21, '25 | llama.cpp is on fire today! It's amazing to see this open-source collaboration getting stronger every day | 3.3× | 44k | 559 | 45 | 60 |
| 93 | Dec 19, '24 | Open the pod bay doors, HAL. | 3.2× | 44k | 584 | 40 | 239 |
| 94 | Feb 27, '23 | 4-bit integer quantisation in whisper.cpp / ggml You can now run the Large Whisper model locally in a web page via WebAssembly SIMD | 3.2× | 43k | 425 | 64 | 159 |
| 95 | Jan 28, '25 | CPU is all you need | 2.9× | 39k | 411 | 34 | 80 |
| 96 | May 31, '24 | LBDL + llama for scale. thx @francoisfleuret | 2.8× | 38k | 435 | 11 | 179 |
| 97 | Jul 28, '25 | AMD teams contributing to the llama.cpp codebase. Great support from the community with the review process. Exciting to see this open-source collaboration! | 2.6× | 35k | 468 | 38 | 27 |
| 98 | May 10, '25 | Son has been doing an outstanding job at maintaining the llama-server implementation and now bringing full-blown vision input support to llama.cpp! Massive kudos and thanks for you | 1.9× | 26k | 481 | 43 | 68 |
| 99 | Dec 15, '22 | Apparently, Stable Diffusion can be used to generate images of spectrograms from text prompts. The spectrograms can in turn be converted to audio using STFT and some tricks Mind is | 1.7× | 0 | 635 | 118 | 116 |
| 100 | Feb 3, '25 | this is what a happy llama.cpp user looks like | 1.6× | 22k | 457 | 22 | 46 |