How are NVIDIA and the OSS community accelerating inference for local agentic AI?
With agents running 24 hours a day, seven days a week on increasingly complex tasks, efficient local compute matters even more. NVIDIA has collaborated with the open source community to enhance the top inference backends for agents, llama.cpp and vLLM. llama.cpp now delivers 2x performance on Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 27B dense models, and 1.6x performance on Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 35B mixture-of-expert (MoE) models. The following two techniques make this possible: Multi-Token Prediction (MTP): An advanced speculative decoding technique, where a smaller draft model proposes several tokens ahead that the targ
How does multi-GPU support scale AI performance for RTX PCs?
One popular way to run AI locally has been to use multiple GPUs to access more memory and compute. While cloud frameworks like vLLM are well optimized for multiple GPUs thanks to their use in data centers, PC frameworks like llama.cpp and the ComfyUI implementation in PyTorch are not optimized for it. To solve this challenge, NVIDIA has collaborated with both llama.cpp and ComfyUI to enhance performance for RTX PCs with two equivalent GPUs. This enables you to run larger models and use the compute of both GPUs for better performance. llama.cpp now supports tensor parallelism (TP), fully utiliz