We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon

In plain words

This is a Rust-based inference engine designed for Apple Silicon, built from scratch to run large language models. It targets developers looking to deploy AI models on Mac hardware. The engine claims performance improvements over llama.cpp and is architected to support additional kernels and platforms beyond its current Apple Silicon focus.

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From the sources

A high-performance inference engine for AI models. Contribute to trymirai/uzu development by creating an account on GitHub.

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