🚀 Bringing Supercomputer-Grade AI Performance to Local CPUs: Purem Benchmarks Now Public

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Hi everyone,

We are excited to announce that on April 28, 2025, we are publicly launching Purem – an innovative CPU-accelerated AI engine that achieves supercomputer-grade performance directly on local devices, such as MacBook (Apple M1–M4).

Purem’s softmax kernel reaches ~6500 ops/sec on Apple M2 CPUs, based on real large-scale benchmarks.
For comparison, industry solutions recalculated for CPU:
• OpenAI FlashAttention achieves ~800–5000 ops/sec on CPU.
• Meta’s Xformers (PyTorch 2.0) achieves ~1300–1500 ops/sec on CPU.

Purem brings industrial-grade AI performance without requiring GPUs, specialized cloud services, or complex hardware setups – running natively on consumer CPUs optimizations.

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:bar_chart: Benchmark Highlights

  • Fully local execution
  • No cloud dependencies
  • O(N) linear-time performance
  • Transparent memory management
  • Deterministic speed without drift

Purem enables developers and researchers to test, validate, and deploy AI workflows locally – with real production-grade speed.

:hammer_and_wrench: Context and Motivation

Today, local CPU performance for AI models is often treated as secondary compared to GPU acceleration.
We believe this needs to change.
With the right architecture, CPUs can match – and sometimes even outperform – traditional GPU solutions, especially in the context of edge computing, early prototyping, and resource-efficient inference.

Purem is designed for:

  • ML researchers
  • AI startups
  • Edge AI applications
  • Cost-sensitive deployments
  • Local LLM fine-tuning and validation

We are opening the free version permanently, enabling unrestricted benchmarking and real-world local testing.

:speech_balloon: Discussion

What are your thoughts on bridging the gap between GPU and CPU compute for scalable AI workloads?
Do you see value in bringing production-grade AI execution directly onto consumer CPUs?

Would love to hear your feedback, insights, and suggestions! :rocket:

(If you’re interested, we also included detailed benchmark data, architectural notes, and upcoming development plans at https://worktif.com).

:shield: TL;DR

  • Purem: Supercomputer-grade AI kernel running locally.
  • Softmax on CPU reaching ~6500 ops/sec.
  • Free demo goes live April 28.
  • Ready to unlock AI potential for everyone.

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