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The latest llama.cpp news, : Bartowski releases Xing4.0-29B-A4B quantized models for llama.cpp.

13 stories mentioning llama.cpp since 23 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.

  1. Research new

    Bartowski releases Xing4.0-29B-A4B quantized models for llama.cpp

    A user named bartowski has shared quantized versions of the Xing4.0-29B-A4B model on Hugging Face, optimized for llama.cpp with speculative decoding and imatrix calibration. The original model has 31 billion parameters…

    1 source primary source
    huggingface.co
  2. Llama.cpp adds support for xing4_0 model

    A pull request merged into the llama.cpp repository on November 3, 2026, added support for the xing40 model. The change was co-authored by Sigbjørn Skjæret of Hugging Face and reviewed internally by maintainers. The…

    1 source primary source
    github.com
  3. Mistral releases Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model on Hugging Face

    Mistral AI released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model, on Hugging Face on October 29, 2026. The model accepts text and image inputs,…

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  4. Ggml-org adds Clover model support to llama.cpp

    The open-source project llama.cpp now supports the Clover model, announced via a pull request merged on October 28, 2026. The update includes GGUF conversion, model loading, and causal hybrid attention, reusing…

    1 source primary source
    github.com
  5. Llama.cpp PR adds DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash support with review fixes

    A pull request for the llama.cpp repository introduces support for the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model architecture, including its specific KV-cache extensions, vision components, and DSpark draft mechanisms. The…

    1 source primary source
    github.com
  6. XHToken releases Spark-X2.6-4B, a 4B on-device language model

    XHToken posted Spark-X2.6-4B on Hugging Face, a compact 4B‑parameter model designed for on‑device deployment. It builds on the Spark‑X2.5-4B architecture and gains capability through improved post‑training. The release…

    1 source primary source
    huggingface.co
  7. Hardware & Compute new

    Hugging Face launches Llama Windows for local AI on Windows 11

    Hugging Face released Llama Windows, a free, open-source desktop app for Windows 11 that simplifies running local AI models without technical setup. The tool integrates with the llama.cpp library, letting users…

    1 source
    thurrott.com
  8. AWS shows how to deploy decision models with llama.cpp on SageMaker AI

    AWS published a tutorial on deploying decision models using llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI. The post demonstrates two deployment paths from the same GGUF model: a standard text-generation path serving…

    1 source primary source
    AWS Machine Learning Blog
  9. Research new

    Llama.cpp adds MTP decoding for Qwen4Exp and GLM-5.3-Flash hybrid model

    llama.cpp version 0.6.0 introduces MTP (Mixture of Token Predictors) speculative decoding for the Qwen4Exp model, claiming a ~1.5x speedup on DGX Spark hardware. The update also adds support for the GLM-5.3-Flash…

    2 sources primary source
    github.com
  10. Agents & Tools new

    Llama.cpp adds decision models for routing and scoring tasks

    Llama.cpp now supports decision models that assign probabilities to predefined options in a single forward pass, unlike chat models that generate text. These models can route customer messages, moderate content, or…

    1 source primary source
    huggingface.co
  11. Llama.cpp adds GLM-5.3-Flash support in commit 649dcb1

    The open-source project llama.cpp integrated support for the GLM-5.3-Flash model, also called GLM5-Next, in commit 649dcb1. The update includes optimizations for long-context decoding, memory pooling, and fixes for…

    1 source primary source
    github.com
  12. Hardware & Compute new

    [For 780M] Vulkan inference 12.9% faster: MMVQ tuning for AMD 780M/Strix in llama.cpp, Q4_0 ROCmFP4 models arriving one after another

    By setting load‑mode to auto, the build now skips memory‑mapped I/O on iGPUs, preventing the model from being loaded twice and halving usable memory. New ROCmFP4 quantized models for Strix/Halo are appearing on…

    1 source
    note.com
  13. Agents & Tools new

    Open-source panel lets users run llama.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp and audio.cpp locally

    A community‑maintained control panel provides a single‑page web UI for running local AI inference on a personal GPU box. It supports llama.cpp for text and vision chat, stable-diffusion.cpp for image generation, and…

    1 source primary source
    github.com

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As of 6 November 2026: Bartowski releases Xing4.0-29B-A4B quantized models for llama.cpp. A user named bartowski has shared quantized versions of the Xing4.0-29B-A4B model on Hugging Face, optimized for llama.cpp with speculative decoding and imatrix calibration.