• GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI +404 We are super happy to announce that GGML, creators of Llama.cpp, are joining HF in order to keep future AI open. • 🔥 Georgi Gerganovand team are joining HF with the goal of scaling and supporting the community behind ggml and llama.cpp as Local AI continues to make exponential progress in the coming years. • We’ve been working with Georgi and team for quite some time (we even have awesome core contributors to llama.cpp likeSonandAlekin the team already) so this has been a very natural process. • llama.cpp is the fundamental building block for local inference, and transformers is the fundamental building block for model definition, so this is basically a match made in heaven. • ❤️ What will change for llama.cpp, the open source project and the community? • Not much - Georgi and team still dedicate 100% of their time maintaining llama.cpp and have full autonomy and leadership on the technical directions and the community.

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  • Hugging Face (HF) announced that GGML, the creators of the llama.cpp library, will join the HF ecosystem to secure long‑term support for open‑source local AI. Georgi Gerganov and his team will remain fully autonomous, continuing to maintain llama.cpp and steer its technical direction. HF will provide sustainable resources, improve packaging and user experience for ggml‑based software, and work to streamline model deployment from the transformers library to llama.cpp. The partnership aims to make local inference more accessible and efficient, positioning llama.cpp as a core component of a future open‑source inference stack.

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