Text Generation Inference (TGI)

Hugging Face's production inference server for LLMs — continuous batching, FlashAttention, quantization (bitsandbytes, GPTQ).

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~9k stars; Apache-2.0 (was BSL-1.1 briefly 2023-07 then reverted to Apache); HF's production inference server.

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