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llama.cpp adds WebGPU Q2_0 support
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- →Enables ultra-compressed models (Q2_0) to run in browsers via WebGPU.
- →Reduces memory footprint for client-side AI inference significantly.
- →Expands the range of models usable on consumer hardware without server costs.
llama.cpp release b11809 adds WebGPU support for Q2_0 quantization, including row dequantization and matrix multiplication operations. This update enables ultra-low-bit models to run efficiently on client-side GPUs via the WebGPU API. The release also includes standard builds for macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android across various hardware backends like CUDA 13 and ROCm 10.0.
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- 1llama.cpp Adds WebGPU Depthwise Conv2D Kernel
llama.cpp Releases · July 23, 2026 · Same story
- 2Llama.cpp b10089 Release Enhances CUDA Support
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