hipfire 0.4.3 adds a new mq4rs quant for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with much faster prefill on gfx1201. 0.4.3.1 fixes a 27B MTP load bug and lifts decode about 48%.
At the OCP summit in San Jose, NVIDIA and AMD each described a rack for AI agents, apart from GPU inference. Both are designs and plans, not shipping tests.
Magnitude is an Apache-2.0 on-device inference engine for local agents: desktop app plus magnitude CLI, on-hardware kernel compile and tune, shared prefix cache, one-click agents or an OpenAI-compatible API.
warpfront tagged hipfire v0.4.0 (2026-09-30): Rust LLM inference over HIP kernels for AMD RDNA. Self-reported ≈5,120 tok/s pp8192 on R9700; Qwen3.8-Flash-Next full 262K on one R9700. Serve defaults to 127.0.0.1. Apache-2.0 (residual MIT files).