llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem

Back to Articles llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem Team Article Published November 13, 2026 Upvote 21 +15 Daniel Bevenius danbev Follow ggml-org Georgi Gerganov ggerganov Follow ggml-org merve merve Follow ggml-org llama.

cpp makes it possible to run multi-modal LLMs across a wide range of hardware - from consumer-grade local machines to high-end enterprise servers.Through quantization, optimized backends, and a portable C/C++ implementation, we make AI inference accessible at every level of the software stack.

We believe this is the most lightweight, versatile and sensible platform for building cross-platform and private AI products.During the 3.5 years since its inception, the project has grown a lot and many downstream applications already depend on our work.

We expect this trend to continue as local AI and privacy become increasingly important in our everyday lives.Every new integration means more developers depending on our library interfaces and therefore having a flexible but stable API is paramount.Today we release libraries v1.0.

0, highlighting our responsibility to those developers.Moving forward, both llama.cpp and ggml will reflect API and ABI incompatibilities with major-version bumps.As adoption grows, we will be stricter about making those boundaries visible to downstream consumers.

Releases Release Library Public header(s) llama.cpp v1.0.0 - LLM inference in C/C++ libllama llama.cpp/include/ ggml v1.0.

0 - Tensor library for machine learning libggml ggml/include/ Semantic version update rules The following rules apply to all ggml-org projects using semantic versioning: Change type Bump MAJOR Breaking change to the public C API in .

/include MINOR Backward-compatible feature, backend updates, model support, or API addition PATCH Bug fix with no API change Distribution We are looking forward to expanding the ways in which ggml-org software is distributed and reaches developers and end-users.

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Channel Platforms Pre-release artifacts Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS Docker Linux Debian Linux Homebrew macOS, Linux conda-forge Windows, macOS, Linux MacPorts macOS Winget Windows XCFramework iOS, macOS Development The project has fostered an amazing open-source community with highly-skilled and talented contributors.

With the rapid advance of AI capabilities in the field of software engineering, we continue to adapt and integrate LLMs in our developement cycle in a thoughtful and resonable manner.

Maintaining a high quality codebase, staying in control of the architecture and understanding the implementation details will remain our top priorities.To reinforce the faster pace of development we continue to invest more and more resources in improving the CI infrastructure behind the projects.

Thanks to HF technologies such as HF Buckets and HF Jobs we are able to scale the capacity necessary to guarantee correctness for every change that lands on the master branches.

With hardware support from NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Arm, IBM and Intel, we continue to enroll more self-hosted runners across all major hardware platforms.Backend and model coverage The underlying machine learning engine of llama.cpp - ggml is designed to run on virtually any hardware in existence.

This is achieved by implementing dedicated ggml backends.Each backend can be compiled as a dynamic library and optionally loaded at runtime.A complete list of the currently implemented backends can be found here.We are committed to provide continuous support of all model architectures.

Currently, llama.cpp supports more than 150 architecture variants as well as all mainstream speculative decoding methods.Thanks The llama.cpp team at Hugging Face is thankful for the incredible support from the community.

Special thanks to the long-time maintainers of the project and all contributors.This is a significant milestone which would not have been possible without our joint efforts!Additional resources llama.

cpp examples ggml-org at Hugging Face ggml-org at Github Check out Llama desktop apps for MacOS and Windows, shipped with love by the team behind llama.cpp and Hugging Face.More from this author New in llama.cpp: Decision Models 110 October 2, 2026 Using OCR models with llama.

cpp 45 April 10, 2026 Community clem 26 minutes ago 🔥🔥🔥 Reply pcuenq 25 minutes ago Let's go!!Reply andito 8 minutes ago THIS Reply cpoisson 5 minutes ago 🚀 Reply burtenshaw less than a minute ago YES!

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