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2050
On-device AI framework ecosystem is blooming these days:
1. llama.cpp - All things Whisper, LLMs & VLMs - run across Metal, CUDA and other backends (AMD/ NPU etc)
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
2. MLC - Deploy LLMs across platforms especially WebGPU (fastest WebGPU LLM implementation out there)
https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
3. MLX - Arguably the fastest general purpose framework (Mac only) - Supports all major Image Generation (Flux, SDXL, etc), Transcription (Whisper), LLMs
https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples
4. Candle - Cross-platform general purpose framework written in Rust - wide coverage across model categories
https://github.com/huggingface/candle
Honorable mentions:
1. Transformers.js - Javascript (WebGPU) implementation built on top of ONNXruntimeweb
https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js
2. Mistral rs - Rust implementation for LLMs & VLMs, built on top of Candle
https://github.com/EricLBuehler/mistral.rs
3. Ratchet - Cross platform, rust based WebGPU framework built for battle-tested deployments
https://github.com/huggingface/ratchet
4. Zml - Cross platform, Zig based ML framework
https://github.com/zml/zml
Looking forward to how the ecosystem would look 1 year from now - Quite bullish on the top 4 atm - but open source ecosystem changes quite a bit! 🤗
Also, which frameworks did I miss?
1. llama.cpp - All things Whisper, LLMs & VLMs - run across Metal, CUDA and other backends (AMD/ NPU etc)
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
2. MLC - Deploy LLMs across platforms especially WebGPU (fastest WebGPU LLM implementation out there)
https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
3. MLX - Arguably the fastest general purpose framework (Mac only) - Supports all major Image Generation (Flux, SDXL, etc), Transcription (Whisper), LLMs
https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples
4. Candle - Cross-platform general purpose framework written in Rust - wide coverage across model categories
https://github.com/huggingface/candle
Honorable mentions:
1. Transformers.js - Javascript (WebGPU) implementation built on top of ONNXruntimeweb
https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js
2. Mistral rs - Rust implementation for LLMs & VLMs, built on top of Candle
https://github.com/EricLBuehler/mistral.rs
3. Ratchet - Cross platform, rust based WebGPU framework built for battle-tested deployments
https://github.com/huggingface/ratchet
4. Zml - Cross platform, Zig based ML framework
https://github.com/zml/zml
Looking forward to how the ecosystem would look 1 year from now - Quite bullish on the top 4 atm - but open source ecosystem changes quite a bit! 🤗
Also, which frameworks did I miss?
