ZSE - Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
Summary
ZSE (Z Server Engine) is an open-source, ultra memory-efficient LLM inference engine featuring an Intelligence Orchestrator that optimizes based on available memory. It presents a suite of components (zAttention, zQuantize, zKV, zStream, zOrchestrator) and multiple efficiency modes, plus benchmarks showing sub-5s cold starts on 7B models. The project offers Docker deployments, an OpenAI-compatible API, and GGUF support, making it a practical option for scalable AI services.