Local LLM Acceleration: Quantization, TTS, and 1M Tokens/Sec

Local LLM Acceleration: Quantization, TTS, and 1M Tokens/Sec Today's Highlights Today's highlights cover groundbreaking advancements for local LLM builders, from open-source text-to-speech surpassing commercial leaders to extreme quantization techniques that promise up to 19x speedups, and real-world benchmarks pushing inference to a million tokens per second on powerful hardware. Mistral AI Releases Voxtral TTS with Open Weights, Outperforming ElevenLabs (r/LocalLLaMA) Source: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s46ylj/mistral_ai_to_release_voxtral_tts_a/ Mistral AI has just announced the release of Voxtral TTS, a 3-billion-parameter text-to-speech model with fully open weights. This is a massive win for local AI enthusiasts and developers looking to integrate high-quality speech synthesis into their self-hosted applications. Voxtral TTS boasts impressive performance, with Mistral AI claiming it outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human preference tests. Technically, it's desig