AI agents (mostly Opus 5.5) have been speeding up a 27B model from 66tok/s to 580tok/s on a Mac in 3 days by rewriting its inference engine
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AI agents, primarily using Opus 5.5, have significantly accelerated a 27B model's inference speed from 66 to 580 tokens per second on a Mac by rewriting its inference engine in just three days.
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