Exclusive: Mindbeam touts dramatic performance improvements in CPU-based AI inference

Mindbeam AI released Litespark-Inference, an open-source framework for running ternary LLMs on CPUs from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Arm. Benchmarks show 17- to 96-fold throughput gains over standard PyTorch and over 80% lower memory use. The startup aims to reduce GPU dependency for AI inference.