EXL3 is the biggest paradigm shift in local LLMs right now, and most people still have…
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EXL3 is the biggest paradigm shift in local LLMs right now, and most people still have not understood it. Not because it is new. Because everyone filed it as "another quant format" next to GGUF and AWQ, tried it once, and moved on. It is not another quant format. It is a different compression algorithm, and the difference compounds at every tier of hardware. I mapped every EXL3 implementation I could find, and the result is one lane per VRAM tier. Here is the best recipe for each tier, so you do not have to build it. WHY TRELLIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER QUANT The formats you grew up on round ea
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