Redis creator launches local inference engine ds4

On October 3, 2026, the Hacker News front page reported that the creator of Redis has launched DwarfStar 4 (ds4), an inference engine for running open-weight models locally. ds4 is written in C and targets high-memory Macs as well as CUDA and ROCm machines. The report lists supported models including DeepSeek V4, V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.x and Qwen3.8 Flash Next. What has been disclosed so far covers the engine's local use, the hardware it runs on and which models it supports.

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