AMD released ROCm 7.13 with Strix Halo optimizations. I benchmarked kyuz0's latest toolbox images against my current ROCm 6.4.4 production baseline to see if upgrading my llama-swap stack is worth it. The answer is complicated.
read more →Getting Resemble AI's expressive TTS model running on AMD Strix Halo with no NVIDIA hardware. TheRock gfx1151 nightlies, bitsandbytes preview for ROCm, reduced step counts, and torch.compile bringing the 3.3B DiT from RTF 4.0 down to 1.75.
read more →Getting Unsloth Studio's full training pipeline running on AMD Strix Halo (gfx1151) using pip-packaged ROCm nightlies, no /opt/rocm required. Chat, training, data recipes, and model export all working on Fedora 43.
read more →Google's official Gemma 4 MTP assistant heads bring speculative decoding to MoE models that couldn't benefit before, and nearly quadruple dense model throughput on AMD Strix Halo's bandwidth-limited unified memory.
read more →Eight optimization attempts on Echo-TTS CPU inference, the five that worked, quality evaluation with voice cloning, and how the optimized CPU path ended up faster than the GPU hybrid.
read more →Multi-Token Prediction turns Qwen 3.6 27B from 6 t/s to 30 t/s on AMD Strix Halo, succeeding where draft models and ngram decoding failed, by using prediction heads baked into the model itself.
read more →Running a diffusion-based TTS model on AMD's Strix Halo, patching CUDA-only code for CPU, discovering a bf16 GPU hang on gfx1151, and a hybrid GPU/CPU trick that beats every other TTS model I've tested.
read more →Porting Tencent's CUDA-only 3D world model to AMD's Radeon 8060S via ROCm Docker, flash-attention CK kernels, a fully compiled gsplat with wave32 patches, and complete 3D reconstruction output including Gaussian splats.
read more →Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.
read more →Benchmarking speculative decoding with Gemma 4 E2B as a draft model for Gemma 4 31B on AMD Strix Halo, a bandwidth-bound setup where the optimal draft-max differs from discrete GPUs.
read more →A full-stack web interface that puts the Pi coding agent in the browser, with system-level access, session history, and model switching through a local LiteLLM proxy.
read more →How LiteLLM, llama-swap, and Lemonade Server compose into a unified local inference platform, routing dozens of models across GPU and NPU through a single API endpoint, accessible anywhere via Tailscale and a local reverse proxy.
read more →Setting up AMD's Lemonade Server on Strix Halo to run LLM and Whisper inference on the XDNA 2 NPU, driver builds, architecture decisions, and benchmarks against the integrated GPU.
read more →Running a 600+ language zero-shot TTS model on an AMD integrated GPU, voice cloning benchmarks, ROCm compatibility adventures, and the container workaround that actually worked.
read more →Running a 2B parameter tokenizer-free TTS model in both Python and C++ on AMD's integrated GPU, near-real-time speech synthesis on CPU, and the Vulkan crash that stopped GPU acceleration in its tracks.
read more →Running Fish Audio's 4B parameter S2-Pro text-to-speech model locally on an AMD Strix Halo integrated GPU via ROCm and Podman.
read more →A Telegram bot backed by the Pi coding agent with autonomous scheduling, persistent memory, cross-session search, and a web dashboard.
read more →A browser-based AI music generation tool powered by ACE-Step, ported to Linux for local generation on AMD Strix Halo hardware.
read more →A full-stack quiz platform that turns markdown files and YouTube transcripts into mixed-format quizzes with AI grading, contextual chat, and performance analytics.
read more →A modular collection of services for building a personal AI agent, tool use, memory, browser automation, TTS, and multi-platform chat interfaces.
read more →Snap a photo of a handwritten list, OCR it with a local vision model, and print a formatted checklist on a thermal receipt printer.
read more →A Dockerfile and docker-compose setup for running llama.cpp with its Python bindings in a container, because finding a working one shouldn't be this hard.
read more →An all-in-one Docker container that bundles LLMs, embeddings, vision, and TTS into a single unified inference server.
read more →Generating weekly Spotify Wrapped-style reports from browser history using local models and Browser Recall data.
read more →Building a custom speech-to-text solution for Linux Wayland users using NVIDIA's Canary model, Silero VAD, and ydotool.
read more →Building a personal browser history search engine with full-text recall, inspired by Microsoft's Recall and rewind.ai.
read more →Building a natural language voice controller for the Linux desktop using Qt6, a tiny 1.7B LLM, and a clever vector embedding trick for tool calling.
read more →Building a private, browser-based voice assistant using WebAssembly, Moonshine STT, Piper TTS, and local LLMs.
read more →A text-driven simulation where you interact with a guy named John through natural language, and an LLM determines how his world responds.
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