MOmodinfo·Jan 22, 2026Submission
MNN – fast, lightweight deep learning framework
2 points · Open discussionalibaba
MNN
C++2020–2026
alibaba / MNN
MNN
MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.
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MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesAlibaba mnn android app support DeepSeek R1 model
2 points · Open discussionFull multimodal Android llm app running without netowrk
1 points · Open discussionThere are a ton of mobile deployment options that support PyTorch+TF models. It's hard to argue TFLite is the best.
https://github.com/alibaba/MNN
https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn
https://github.com/Tencent/tnn
https://github.com/XiaoMi/mace
Plus, each chip vendor has their own SDK (e.g., Qualcomm has SNPE, MediaTek has NeuroPilot)
In What’s New in TensorFlow 2.10?Alibaba/MNN: MNN is a fast, lightweight deep learning framework
3 points · Open discussion