MAGNITUDE LAUNCHES SELF-OPTIMIZING INFERENCE ENGINE
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Magnitude, a Y Combinator S25 startup, has released an inference engine for AI agents that automatically optimizes performance across any hardware. The tool runs up to 2x faster than llama.cpp on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
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