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## Posts

### A 1.5B Model Just Beat a 7B — By Spending Compute Differently
- URL: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-04-07-test-time-scaling-mobile-npu
- Summary: Researchers at Peking University and Infinigence-AI just dropped a result that should reframe how we think about on-device language models. A Qwen 2.5 1.5B, running on a Snapdragon 8 Elite's neura
- Tags: test-time-compute, mobile-npu, small-models, quantization, on-device-ai
- Date: 2026-04-06
- Details: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-04-07-test-time-scaling-mobile-npu/llms.txt
### Google Shipped a Multimodal 2B Model That Runs on a Raspberry Pi at 133 tok/s
- URL: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-gemma-4-e2b-edge
- Summary: Two days ago, Google DeepMind dropped Gemma 4 with four sizes. The 31B dense and 26B MoE variants are fine — another round of open-weight heavyweights to add to the pile. What caught my attention were
- Tags: gemma-4, on-device-ai, per-layer-embeddings, multimodal, edge-inference
- Date: 2026-04-03
- Details: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-gemma-4-e2b-edge/llms.txt
### Every Laptop Has an NPU Now. Almost Nobody Knows How to Use It.
- URL: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-04-02-npu-software-gap
- Summary: Walk into any electronics store in April 2026 and try to buy a laptop without a neural processing unit. You can't. AMD's Ryzen AI 400 ships with XDNA 2 rated at up to 60 TOPS. Intel's Core
- Tags: npu, developer-tools, openvino, onnx-runtime, edge-inference
- Date: 2026-04-01
- Details: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-04-02-npu-software-gap/llms.txt
### 87% Smaller, 2% Dumber: A Field Guide to INT4 Quantization
- URL: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-03-31-int4-quantization-field-guide
- Summary: Four billion parameters, two gigabytes of RAM. That's the promise of INT4 quantization — shrink a model by 87% and run it on hardware that couldn't have touched it at full precision. But &quot
- Tags: quantization, int4, gptq, awq, gguf, edge-inference
- Date: 2026-03-30
- Details: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-03-31-int4-quantization-field-guide/llms.txt
### Your Browser Tab Is the Inference Server Now
- URL: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-browser-inference-server
- Summary: Here's an uncomfortable number: 180 tokens per second. Qwen 3.5, INT4 quantized, running in a Chrome tab. No API key. No server. No egress bill. Just a browser and a GPU that was already sitting t
- Tags: webgpu, browser-inference, transformers.js, webllm, on-device-ai, hot-take
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Details: https://edge.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-browser-inference-server/llms.txt

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