---
title: "GGUF, the long way around"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/gguf-the-long-way-around-rcuohere2
source_url: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/29/gguf-the-long-way-around/
type: article
source: "Simon Willison"
published: 2024-02-29T21:44:47.970Z
updated: 2026-05-14T02:15:09.662Z
tags: ["ai", "genai", "llama", "llama-cpp", "llm", "pytorch"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# GGUF, the long way around

**[Simon Willison](https://daily.dev/sources/simonwillison)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Vicki Boykis explores the GGUF format used by llama.cpp, which fixed design flaws in GGML and is now the default format. The post also discusses PyTorch models and their traditional persistence using Python pickle.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/29/gguf-the-long-way-around/>

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