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Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
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We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as fast as possible on your hardware. It works on Mac, Linux, and Windows on any hardware and is up to 2x faster than llama.cpp.
Short excerpt from the founders’ Launch HN post. Read the full original at the link below.
Read the launch post on Hacker News Company website
Posted 2026-09-30 · 194 points · 96 comments. Batch as stated by the founders in the post title.
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