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RWKV (pronounced RwaKuv) is an RNN with great LLM performance, which can also be directly trained like a GPT transformer (parallelizable). We are at RWKV-7 "Goose". So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, linear time, constant space (no kv-cache), fast training, infinite ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.
LLM inference in C/C++
llama.cpp has the larger GitHub footprint with 109.6K stars.
llama.cpp is currently growing faster at +1.2K stars this week.
llama.cpp has the stronger health score at 100/100.
| Signal | RWKV LM | llama.cpp |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 14.5K | 109.6K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +1.2K |
| Health score | 23 | 100 |
| Contributors | 5 | 1.7K |
| Commits per week | 2.6 | 86.2 |
| Open issues | 147 | 1.6K |
| Language | Python | C++ |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 14h ago |
| Last release | 5.00 | b9113 |
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