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Magnitude targets fast local inference for concurrent agent sessions

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Magnitude says its inference engine tunes and compiles kernels on-device for local agent workloads, and claims speeds up to 2x llama.cpp. Its focus on concurrent sessions and hardware-specific optimization makes the project relevant to local agent serving.

What: Magnitude is an open-source inference engine that runs open models locally and connects to existing agents.
How: It compiles and tunes kernels on the device, and shares prefix caches across concurrent sessions.
Why it matters: Hardware-specific tuning and shared caches can help engineers serve local agent sessions faster with less memory.

Agents send inference requests through Magnitude to locally running open models. Sketched from the article's own text.

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