GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI Published February 20, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 511 Georgi Gerganov ggerganov Xuan-Son Nguyen ngxson Aleksander Grygier allozaur Lysandre lysandre Victor Mustar victor Julien Chaumond julien-c We are super happy to announce that GGML, creators of Llama.cpp, are joining HF in order to keep future AI open. 🔥 Georgi Gerganov and team are joining HF with the goal of scaling and supporting the community behind ggml and llama.cpp as Local AI continues to make exponential progress in the coming years.

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• GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI Published February 20, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 511 Georgi Gerganov ggerganov Xuan-Son Nguyen ngxson Aleksander Grygier allozaur Lysandre lysandre Victor Mustar victor Julien Chaumond julien-c We are super happy to announce that GGML, creators of Llama.cpp, are joining HF in order to keep future AI open.
• 🔥 Georgi Gerganov and team are joining HF with the goal of scaling and supporting the community behind ggml and llama.cpp as Local AI continues to make exponential progress in the coming years.
• We've been working with Georgi and team for quite some time (we even have awesome core contributors to llama.cpp like Son and Alek in the team already) so this has been a very natural process.
• llama.cpp is the fundamental building block for local inference, and transformers is the fundamental building block for model definition, so this is basically a match made in heaven.
• ❤️ What will change for llama.cpp, the open source project and the community?
• Not much – Georgi and team still dedicate 100% of their time maintaining llama.cpp and have full autonomy and leadership on the technical directions and the community.