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Janus serves GGUF models locally through Vulkan and an OpenAI-compatible API

github.com 3 min read Editor score 7/10

Janus is a single Go binary that runs GGUF models through Vulkan or a CPU fallback, exposes chat-completions endpoints and supports model hot-swapping. It offers a low-dependency local-serving option, though the listing provides no performance results.

What
Janus is a single Go binary that serves local GGUF models through an OpenAI-compatible API.
How
It runs llama.cpp through Vulkan on AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA GPUs, with CPU fallback, and can hot-swap models.
Why it matters
The standard API and single-binary deployment let engineers connect local inference to OpenAI clients without Python or Docker.
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Janus routes API requests to llama.cpp for Vulkan or CPU inference. Sketched from the article's own text.

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