Recursive Reasoning, Disaggregated Inference, and the Local Audio Swap

News

vLLM 'EngineRefactor' targets disaggregated serving architecture

While this is a massive backend refactor touching the scheduler, the real takeaway for self-hosters is the planned nightlies. If they get this right, it cements vLLM as the heavy artillery when you need to splice high throughput into your stack.

Events

GGUF repo lands 'IQ4_NL' dynamic quantization for 70B dense models

The new quantization scheme uses significantly less memory for the exact same perplexity. This means you can feasibly run a 70B dense model on a standard 24GB VRAM card now with minimal performance hit, which changes the game for local workstations.