9 comments

  • Schlagbohrer 49 minutes ago
    The top 3 repos sorted by stars on Huawei's github page are all for quantization. I am not an LLM scientist so I can't tell what the difference is between them, or why they need three different pipelines for model quantization.
  • lukasc-ch 12 hours ago
    People are reproducing it and creating GGUFs https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/36atJ2nNjh
  • Rabbit504030201 14 hours ago
    https://huawei-csl.com/blog/macaq/

    Why does some HN users seem to prefer GitHub page whenever available at expense of official site? I mean, Huawei is still sanctioned, anything they host third party outside China can disappear at any hour.

    • nout 13 hours ago
      I prefer GitHub, because I can see the code and immediately know where to click. Product pages are always full of various marketing shots, videos, etc that just takes more time to parse through.
      • gt0 10 hours ago
        This is pretty much the reason that if I read about a new product, I generally just go to the Wikipedia page. I just want the no-bullshit version, no "Say hello to blah" video or marketing word salad.
      • andsoitis 7 hours ago
        In this particular case I think you'd be pleased with it https://huawei-csl.com/blog/macaq/

        It is from their lab in Switzerland, after all.

    • lukasc-ch 12 hours ago
      Looks like many of their repos there have been around for a while. Also not sure why we would sanction free stuff from them
      • skinfaxi 10 hours ago
        Well I'm not a lawyer but are you allowed to provide material support to sanctioned entities?
        • sroussey 8 hours ago
          It’s a commerce department sanction not a treasury department sanction (which would be far more serious).
    • xpil11 14 hours ago
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  • mocchibird 14 hours ago
    Did they release any model? Seems good for Strata
    • minraws 8 hours ago
      Qwen 3.8 27B has a macaq quant available
  • utternerd 14 hours ago
    What a project name.
    • QuantumNomad_ 14 hours ago
      Probably intended to reference macaque monkeys.
      • keyle 13 hours ago
        I forgot my French, but isn't it incredibly rude?
        • PorciiVorbesc 13 hours ago
          Why?
          • dmonitor 13 hours ago
            I think the immature commenters are referring to the pronunciation being similar to "my cock"
            • PorciiVorbesc 13 hours ago
              Aaa, thanks I didn't think of that.
              • arcanemachiner 11 hours ago
                Congratulations on not being a total degenerate.
            • stdbrouw 12 hours ago
              It's also a racial slur in certain languages.
            • keyle 12 hours ago
              No, no, not that.
        • IsTom 12 hours ago
          I'd assume the French know something about naming projects in the vein of Coq.
      • xpil11 14 hours ago
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    • 0xb0565e486 14 hours ago
      xD
    • adrian_b 14 hours ago
      I do not think that macaques would mind.
    • ebx 13 hours ago
      Just enough plausible deniability :P
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