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Show HN: Jinfer – AI inference engine for the JVM. AI in a jar

Quixotic AI released jinfer, an early CPU-only inference engine for the JVM that supports chat, vision, audio, embeddings, reranking, and TTS without a Python runtime, ONNX, Docker containers, sidecar processes, or IPC. The stack includes toknroll (pure-Java tokenizers), gguf/safetensors model-format readers, jam quantized matmul kernels the developer says are competitive with llama.cpp on CPU, and jota, a Tensor API targeting Java, C, CUDA, HIP, Metal, OpenCL, and Mojo. The release ships integrations for Spring AI and LangChain4j and is compatible with GraalVM Native Image, and the developer is seeking feedback on the API surface.

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Hi HN, Some would call AI on the JVM quixotic. And so, Quixotic AI was born.

jinfer is an inference engine for the JVM: chat, vision, audio, embeddings, reranking, and TTS. No Python runtime, no ONNX, no Docker containers, no sidecar process, no IPC. Finally, AI in a jar.

The stack underneath is built for the JVM rather than bolted onto it:

    toknroll: pure-Java tokenizers, zero dependencies
    gguf / safetensors: read and write llama.cpp and HuggingFace model formats
    jam: quantized matmul kernels, competitive with llama.cpp on CPU
    jota: Tensor API targeting Java, C, CUDA, HIP, Metal, OpenCL, and Mojo

It ships with integrations for Spring AI and LangChain4j, and is compatible with GraalVM Native Image for low-overhead, self-contained binaries with millisecond startup. This is an early release (CPU only): I'd especially like feedback on the API surface.

Site: https://qxotic.ai Repo: https://github.com/qxoticai/qxotic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708628

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