
Together AI has released benchmark results showing its Inference Engine outperforms competitors in coding agent workloads. The engine delivers 31% more tokens per second than the next fastest open-source engine, thanks to optimizations like ThunderMLA and custom kernel rewrites. The benchmark simulates real-world production scenarios with high concurrency and long input contexts. This advancement allows coding agents to manage higher loads more efficiently, reducing latency and operational costs.
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This release quietly cements llama.cpp as the universal inference runtime by finally supporting NVIDIA's latest CUDA 13 stack alongside AMD's ROCm 10.0. The inclusion of native builds for Linux arm64 with Snapdragon chips, covering CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPU, signals a serious push into mobile edge deployment. While Apple Silicon KleidiAI is disabled in this specific build, the broader hardware coverage means developers no longer need to compile from source for most modern accelerators. It’s less about new features and more about removing friction for anyone running local models on bleeding-edge or diverse hardware.
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