Laguna Doubles Performance: Significant Mac Inference Speedup Without Speculative Decoding
gajesh · x · 2026-08-01
An independent development team announced that its Laguna project has successfully doubled its running speed on consumer Mac devices.
Notably, this significant performance leap was achieved without using speculative decoding. The team stated that to ensure system security and reliability, they are introducing an anti-hack verifier first. Speculative decoding will be added later, demonstrating a rigorous and careful engineering release cadence.
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