From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
Summary
DS4 (DwarfStar 4) is presented as a local inference engine designed for high-memory Mac, CUDA, and ROCm hardware, supporting DeepSeek V4/V4.1, GLM 5.x, and Qwen 3.8 with text and vision models, along with local APIs and a CLI. The article outlines the three-phase design (giant, collapse, dwarf star), the three interfaces (CLI, server, agent), hardware requirements, and a three-step run process (fetch weights, build for backend, run). It emphasizes a local, reproducible stack and provides practical commands and benchmarks references.