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DSpark checkpoints add speculative decoding to three LFM2.5 models. Liquid AI reports up to 3.18x more throughput on a GPU and 2.87x on device, with quality unchanged, and llama.cpp and SGLang support upstream on day one.
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On August 20, Google announced that the Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. In two years the community has published more than 100,000 derived models, and the most recent Kaggle competition drew more than 1,600 entries. An Awesome Gemma repository launched with the announcement, meant as an index of vetted projects, fine-tuned models, tutorials, and tools. The figure matters to someone building sites too, because a model you run on your own server stops being exotic, which makes text processing without sending data to a third party workable.
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