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Tom Jobbins

TheBloke, prolific quantizer of open models to GGUF

EngineeringmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • TheBloke GGUF model library on Hugging Face
  • thousands of GPTQ and AWQ quantizations

Independent

LLM quantization engineer · current

Why

Why we celebrate them.

For a crucial stretch of the local AI boom, if you ran a model on your Mac, it was probably one of Tom's quants. TheBloke's meticulously documented GGUF uploads taught a generation which quant to pick for their RAM, and made the llama.cpp ecosystem usable at scale.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Hugging Face
  • GitHub
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