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Should llama.cpp Expand Format Support Beyond GGUF?

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1 Apr
What are the benefits of using LLama.cpp / ik_llama over LM Studio right now?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been testing LM Studio on my RTX 5070 Ti (16GB) and Ryzen 9800X3D, running Unsloth Qwen3.5 35B (UD Q4_K_XL).</p> <p>Initially, I thought LM

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18 May
GGUF with MTP vs MLX without. Is mlx still the way to go for mac users?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Has anyone of the mac users tested the speed difference (token gen, promt processing) between mlx quants without mtp, vs gguf quants with

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30 Mar
llama.cpp at 100k stars

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s7z7hj/llamacpp_at_100k_stars/"> <img alt="llama.cpp at 100k stars"

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14 May
Ollama Pre-Release Switches From Building on GGML to Using llama.cpp Directly

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.30.0-rc15">https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.30.0-rc15</a></p>

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10 May
NCCL-Free Tensor Parallelism on Dual Blackwell PCIe llama.cpp b9095 released!

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>b9095 finally makes -sm tensor work on dual consumer Blackwell PCIe GPUs without NCCL</p> <p>If youre on dual Blackwell gpus this look like it

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13 Apr
FYI, Step 3.5 Flash has better perf and context is 1/4 the price in llama.cpp

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So i recently updated LMstudio after a long pause and updated my llama.cpp runtimes too.. i was shocked.. i thought maybe something like

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7 May
feat: Add Mimo v2.5 model support by AesSedai · Pull Request #22493 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t67lvx/feat_add_mimo_v25_model_support_by_aessedai_pull/"> <img alt="feat: Add Mimo v2.5 model support by

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