Merve Noyan runs Qwen3.5-0.8B on Rabbit R1 via wllama after llama.cpp download fails
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Merve Noyan says she could not download llama.cpp directly to her Rabbit R1, so she built a version based on wllama, a project by @ngxson.
She reports it runs a 4-bit quantized Qwen3.5-0.8B on the device. The post updates her earlier plan to install llama.cpp on the Rabbit R1 and build speech-to-speech apps.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 18, 2:31 PM ET
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- Oct 18, 2:16 PM ET · 1 articleRunning Qwen3.5-0.8B 4-bit on Rabbit R1 via wllamaMerve Noyan: Merve Noyan runs Qwen3.5-0.8B on a Rabbit R1 using wllama
- Oct 18, 9:06 AM ET · 1 articleMerve Noyan considers running llama.cpp on her Rabbit R1Merve Noyan: Merve Noyan considers running llama.cpp on her Rabbit R1
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merve@mervenoyannXMerve Noyan runs Qwen3.5-0.8B on a Rabbit R1 using wllamaAIMerve Noyan says she could not download llama.cpp directly, so she built a version using wllama by @ngxson to run a 4-bit quantized Qwen3.5-0.8B on the Rabbit R1. The post is an update on her earlier plan to install llama.cpp on the device and build speech-to-speech apps.

merve@mervenoyannXMerve Noyan considers running llama.cpp on her Rabbit R1AIHugging Face's Merve Noyan says she is considering installing llama.cpp on her Rabbit R1 and building speech-to-speech apps on it. She notes the device now lets owners vibe-code apps, run community creations on-device, or jailbreak it, and says she may need to upgrade its OS first. She states the device was sent to her for free and that the post is not a paid ad.

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