Today marks 3 years since ChatGPT was launched. In this short article I reflect on how far LLMs have come in just a few years, from getting early access to GPT-4 to now running open models that surpass it, and share two graphs that illustrate both the progress in open-weight models and the increasingly close race between OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic (with Google currently in the lead).

A guide to running large language models locally: hardware options, inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp), quantization techniques, and user interfaces.

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How a small draft model can speed up LLM inference by 1.82× without sacrificing quality - benchmarking Qwen3-32B with speculative decoding

A practical guide to renting GPUs for running open-weight LLM models with control, privacy, and flexibility.

Learn how to properly set up vLLM with GPT-OSS built-in tools and integrate it with LibreChat to leverage powerful capabilities.