THtheanonymousone·Jun 28, 2026Submission
KoboldCPP: Run GGUF Models Easily with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install
3 points · Open discussionLostRuins
koboldcpp
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koboldcpp
KoboldCpp - Run GGUF AI models locally with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.
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KoboldCpp - Run GGUF AI models locally with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.
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What Hacker News says
4 sourcesRolling build of Koboldcpp now supports Krea2:
* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/tag/rolling
Model weights:
* https://github.com/leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp/blob/master/d...
In the launcher GUI, select 'Image Gen' and set Krea2 Turbo gguf as the image model, Qwen3 VL 4b gguf as the T5 model, and Wan2.1 safetensors as the VAE.
In Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image modelKoboldcpp supports image generation, but you will have to wait for the next release for Krea2 support.
* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
In Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image modelKoboldcpp has built in support for image models. Model search and download, one executable to run, UI, OpenAI API endpoint, llama.cpp endpoint, highly configurable. If you want to get up and running instantly, just pick a kcppt file and open that and it will download everything you need and load it for you.
Engine:
* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest/
Kcppt files:
* https://huggingface.co/koboldcpp/kcppt/tree/main
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