A September 28, 2026 announcement presents open-source tools for pretraining, attention, checkpoint conversion, and language-model serving.
On September 28, 2026, IFM-AI announced the release of the xLLM code, a lightweight infrastructure for language-model pretraining. The announcement also includes xattn, an attention backend, and xBridges, a toolkit for checkpoint conversion and serving.
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