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24 alternatives to TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser
TurboQuant WASM SIMD vector compression — 3 bits/dim with fast dot product. Requires relaxed SIMD (Chrome 114+, Firefox 128+, Safari 18+, Node 20+) - teamchong/turboquant-wasm
TurboQuant-WASM brings Google's vector quantization technology to web browsers through WebAssembly. It enables developers to compress and process high-dimensional vector data efficiently in client-side applications… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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TurboQuant▲295New LLM compression algorithm by Google
Mar 2026 · research.google · its alternatives →
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A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings - RyanCodrai/turbovec
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've open sourced a JavaScript to WASM compiler. It's an experimental tool, but given the semantics I already implemented, I'm fairly certain I am able to eventually cover 100% of JavaScript spec. Any ideas, questions or critique welcomed! If you are interested in WASM, especially with new proposals like WASM GC or exception handling, it might be a good source of seeing these features in action - the project has a few thousand lines of hand written WAT so far.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The collaborative video editor that breaks the boundaries of creativity, enabling you to craft infinite possibilities with your team.
2020 · modfy.video · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B▲124The open sparse MoE model for agentic coding
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Quantized word vectors that take 8x-16x less space than regular word vectors - agnusmaximus/Word2Bits
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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repo of my sizecoding entries. Contribute to ilmenit/sizecoding development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Using threaded emscripten to speed up the generation and offload the main loop. No SIMD or other optimizations. Might work faster with #enable-experimental-webassembly-features enabled. Tested in x86 Chrome and Firefox, Apple Silicon Safari Run it yourself: https://github.com/lxe/ggml/tree/wasm-demo Thanks, https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml,
2023 · lxe.co · its alternatives →
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Fluid simulation in liquidfun-wasm
2021 · birchlabs.co.uk · its alternatives →
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2018 · dropbox.github.io · its alternatives →
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An open source "Rust ↦ WASM, k-Means Color Quantization" crate for Image-to-Pixel-Art conversions in the browser - gametorch/image_to_pixel_art_wasm
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a vector index I built that supports insertion and k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) querying, optimized for GPUs. It operates entirely in CUDA and can process queries on half a billion vectors in under 200 milliseconds. The codebase is structured as a standalone library with an HTTP API for remote access. It’s intended for high-performance search tasks—think similarity search, AI model retrieval, or reinforcement learning replay buffers. The codebase is located at https://github.com/rodlaf/BinaryGPUIndex.
2025 · rlafuente.com · its alternatives →
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Using wasm-bindgen, and the tween-rs crate
2024 · rustween.mtassoumt.uk · its alternatives →
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Working on Mac, Linux, and Windows now. I include a simple GUI to find new models and get things built and set up. It is working quite well across a few models for me. The GitHub README and DESIGN.md files go into detail of the how/why and it's working remarkably well so far. https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/shoehorn
Aug 2026 · notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io · its alternatives →
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A lightweight engine for durable execution / deterministic workflows I built with Rust, wasmtime and the WASM Component Model. Its main use is running reliable, long-running workflows that can automatically resume after failures. Looking for feedback on the approach and potential use cases!
2025 · obeli.sk · its alternatives →
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We show the potential of modern, embedded graph databases in the browser by demonstrating a fully in-browser chatbot that can perform Graph RAG using Kuzu (the graph database we're building) and WebLLM, a popular in-browser inference engine for LLMs. The post retrieves from the graph via a Text-to-Cypher pipeline that translates a user question into a Cypher query, and the LLM uses the retrieved results to synthesize a response. As LLMs get better, and WebGPU and Wasm64 become more widely adopted, we expect to be able to do more and more in the browser in combination with LLMs, so a lot of…
2025 · blog.kuzudb.com · its alternatives →
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🕸️🦀 A WASM vector similarity search written in Rust - tantaraio/voy
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The story of Vectorly — four pivots, three years, and a Hopin acquisition. From video compression to AI upscaling to virtual backgrounds. Founded 2018, acquired by Hopin December 2021.
2021 · vectorly.io · its alternatives →
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Experimental Global Optimization Algorithm. Contribute to chrisstroemel/Simple development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A 3.16M-parameter INT4 transformer running entirely in the on-chip memory of a Xilinx Kria KV260. Zero DRAM in the token loop, 59,965 tok/s on the fabric, bit-exact. Chat with it live.
Aug 2026 · mikeayles.com · its alternatives →
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While building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, I was frustrated by my vector database consuming 8GB RAM just to search my own PDFs. After incurring $150 in cloud costs, I had an unconventional idea: what if I encoded my documents into video frames? The concept sounded absurd—storing text in video? But modern video codecs have been optimized for compression over decades. So, I converted text into QR codes, then encoded those as video frames, letting H.264/H.265 handle the compression. The results were surprising. 10,000 PDFs compressed down to a 1.4GB video file. Search…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover, evaluate, and access relevant embeddings in your go-to framework. Skip all the infra for scraping, cleaning, indexing, and updating high-quality embeddings.
2023 · embedding.store · its alternatives →
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A simple re-implementation of Google's sparsehash as a learning excercise. - qpfiffer/Simple-Sparsehash
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Holger, a developer who worked in the lighting industry. I built this to scratch my own itch and put it on crates.io and PyPI where nothing like it existed. The old file formats (EULUMDAT from 1990, IES from 1991) still work fine for basic photometry. But the industry is moving toward spectral data – full wavelength distributions instead of just lumen values. The new standards (TM-33, ATLA-S001) are barely supported by existing tools. So this handles both: legacy formats for compatibility, spectral data for anyone who wants to work with the new standards. Stack: Rust core, then…
Dec 2025 · eulumdat.icu · its alternatives →
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