XDA Developers on MSN

Most people use Ollama or Llama.cpp for local LLMs, but these are the tools I switch to when it gets serious

There's a whole world of tools to launch local LLMs out there, and these are some of the best.

Page 2: Surprise from Google

With LLMs increasingly working multimodally, there are exciting developments for more performance and leaner sizes.

Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit

LCLMs compress LLM context before decode — 8.8x faster at 16x compression, beating every KV cache method tested. Open-sourced by NYU and Columbia.
Memeburn

Google's Gemma 4 12B Runs AI Natively on Your Laptop — No Cloud Needed

Google's Gemma 4 12B brings multimodal AI — audio, video, and text — to a standard 16GB laptop in 2026. No cloud required. Here's what it does and why it matters.
EDN

MLPerf and the rise of latency-aware LLM benchmarking

Here is a sneak peek at the evolution of the MLPerf benchmark and how generative AI forced a radical shift in AI hardware ...

Google unveils Gemma 4 12B for local AI agents, coding, and multimodal reasoning

Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 4 12B, a new open-weight multimodal model designed to bring agentic intelligence ...

MediaTek unveils Dimensity 8550 with LLM Booster and support for Gemini Nano V3

The chipset is built on TSMC's N4P node and has eight Cortex-A725 CPU cores, a Mali-G720 MC8 GPU and an NPU 880. Earlier this year, MediaTek unveiled ...
Forbes

Making Sense Of What’s Really Going On Inside AI By Using Newly Devised Natural Language Autoencoders

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Hackaday

An LLM From “Scratch”

Reading a book about bowling is not the same as actually bowling. If that resonates with you and you want to learn more about large language models, check out the LLM From Scratch project. The ...
The Verge

Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Microarchitecture Tailored to 3D-Stacked Near-Memory Processing LLM Decoding (U. of Edinburgh, Peking U., Cambridge et al.)

A new technical paper, “Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling Co-Design,” was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh, Peking ...