Qualcomm launches GenieX to run LLMs on their Windows Laptops

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Qualcomm launched GenieX, an SDK for running LLMs on Windows laptops, achieving 20 tok/s on Gemma 4 26B and supporting llama.cpp with GGUF models.

Qualcomm was behind every major chipmaker so they are playing catchup when it comes to SDKs. https://aihub.qualcomm.com/geniex I was able to get 20 tok/s running Gemma 4 26B A4B 0.5s for first token running on the GPU or NPU 10 tok/s on the GPU for Qwen 3.6 27B MTP To use llama.cpp, just get any Q4_0 GGUF model and it will run on the CPU,GPU,NPU
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