[GitHub Trending] antirez/ds4
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Local inference engine for DeepSeek models across GPU backends, highly novel and strategic.
Summary
Antirez released ds4 (DwarfStar), a narrow inference engine optimized for DeepSeek V4 Flash and GLM 5.2, supporting Metal, CUDA, and ROCm backends. It enables running capable models on consumer hardware like MacBooks with 96GB+ RAM or via SSD streaming, and can turn legacy CUDA servers into multi-user LLM servers using micro-batching. The project is self-contained, not a general GGUF runner, and acknowledges heavy reliance on llama.cpp/GGML while being developed with strong AI assistance from GPT 5.5 and Claude Fable.
Author
antirez