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Models·Sep 22·all news from September 22, 2026

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

The Hugging Face Transformers library has added native support for GGUF-formatted quantized models from llama.cpp. This integration allows developers to load compressed weights directly through the Transformers API, simplifying the process of running memory-efficient models on consumer hardware.

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