Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference

Why does some HN users seem to prefer GitHub page whenever available at expense of official site? I mean, Huawei is still sanctioned, anything they host third party outside China can disappear at any hour.

nout | 15 hours ago

I prefer GitHub, because I can see the code and immediately know where to click. Product pages are always full of various marketing shots, videos, etc that just takes more time to parse through.

: gt0 | 11 hours ago
This is pretty much the reason that if I read about a new product, I generally just go to the Wikipedia page. I just want the no-bullshit version, no "Say hello to blah" video or marketing word salad.
: andsoitis | 9 hours ago
In this particular case I think you'd be pleased with it https://huawei-csl.com/blog/macaq/
It is from their lab in Switzerland, after all.

lukasc-ch | 13 hours ago

Looks like many of their repos there have been around for a while. Also not sure why we would sanction free stuff from them

skinfaxi | 11 hours ago

Well I'm not a lawyer but are you allowed to provide material support to sanctioned entities?

: sroussey | 10 hours ago
It’s a commerce department sanction not a treasury department sanction (which would be far more serious).

mocchibird | 15 hours ago

Did they release any model? Seems good for Strata

: minraws | 9 hours ago
Qwen 3.8 27B has a macaq quant available

lukasc-ch | 13 hours ago

People are reproducing it and creating GGUFs https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/36atJ2nNjh

Schlagbohrer | an hour ago

The top 3 repos sorted by stars on Huawei's github page are all for quantization. I am not an LLM scientist so I can't tell what the difference is between them, or why they need three different pipelines for model quantization.