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MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.

Why this job: says: inference engine

architecture

What it does

  • Optimized for devices, no dependencies, can be easily deployed to mobile devices and a variety of embedded devices.
  • iOS platform. static library size will full option for armv7+arm64 platforms is about 12MB, size increase of linked executables is about 2M.
  • Android platform. core so size is about 800KB (armv7a - c++_shared).
  • Using MNN_BUILD_MINI can reduce package size by about 25%, with a limit of fixed model input size
  • Support FP16 / Int8 quantize, can reduce model size 50%-70%

Get started

No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)

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Licence
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Allows business use
Downloads for
3 systems
Mac, Windows, Linux
Latest version
3.6.2
Released 12 days ago
Built with
C++
89% of the code

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Contributors
22
Last 90 days
Issues
99% closed
41 still open
Pull requests
1,002 merged
25 waiting
Releases
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6 in the last year

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Download files, 3.6.2

  • Mac1 file, 96 downloads
  • Windows1 file, 254 downloads
  • Linux1 file, 115 downloads

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Languages

  • C++ 89%
  • Python 2%
  • C 2%
  • Kotlin 2%

Topics

  • mnn
  • convolution
  • vulkan
  • embedded-devices
  • winograd-algorithm
  • machine-learning
  • deep-learning
  • ml
  • arm
  • llm
  • transformer

Project record

  • JobLocal LLMs
  • StatusListed
  • Commits3,272
  • Forks2,511
  • Watching237
  • Stars in 28 days+264
  • CreatedApr 15, 2019
  • First seen by usNov 7, 2026
  • CheckedNov 10, 2026

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