Meta's Llama 4 7B achieves 95% GPT-4o accuracy on a single consumer GPU, using mixture-of-experts architecture?

Meta's Llama 4 7B achieves 95% GPT-4o accuracy on a single consumer GPU, using mixture-of-experts architecture

Mistral 7B v2 runs at 50 tokens/second on Apple M4 with 8-bit quantization and 100K context windows?

Mistral 7B v2 runs at 50 tokens/second on Apple M4 with 8-bit quantization and 100K context windows

New tooling (llama.cpp v2026.04) adds speculative decoding and hybrid CPU/GPU offloading for 2x speed

Open Source

r/LocalLLaMA May 09, 2026

⚡Open-source models like Llama 4 and Mistral 7B hit local devices with 10x efficiency gains...

Deep Dive

April 2026 was a turning point for local LLMs. This is my tribute.

Key Points

Meta's Llama 4 7B achieves 95% GPT-4o accuracy on a single consumer GPU, using mixture-of-experts architecture
Mistral 7B v2 runs at 50 tokens/second on Apple M4 with 8-bit quantization and 100K context windows
New tooling (llama.cpp v2026.04) adds speculative decoding and hybrid CPU/GPU offloading for 2x speed

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