{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-17T22:10:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-16-ps5lm-llama-cpp-jailbroken-ps5/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-16-ps5lm-llama-cpp-jailbroken-ps5/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-10-16-ps5lm-llama-cpp-jailbroken-ps5","date":"2026-10-16","date_precision":"day","short_title":"PS5LM runs local LLMs on a jailbroken PS5","deck":null,"takeaway":"An open-source project, PS5LM (GitHub user cobanov, GPL-3.0), ports llama.cpp to the GPU of a PlayStation 5 jailbroken on firmware 7.00–13.60 and serves GGUF models on the home network through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs.","category":"open-source","category_label":"Open source","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"GitHub: cobanov/PS5LM","url":"https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM","type":"code","group":"primary","domain":"github.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Hacker News discussion","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122431","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"news.ycombinator.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-17","updated":"2026-10-17","orgs":["Community"],"title":"PS5LM: llama.cpp port runs GGUF models on a jailbroken PS5's GPU and serves them over OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs","summary":"An open-source project, PS5LM (GitHub user cobanov, GPL-3.0), ports llama.cpp to the GPU of a PlayStation 5 jailbroken on firmware 7.00–13.60 and serves GGUF models on the home network through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. It lists ~55 tokens/s for a 9B model and ~20 tokens/s for a 27B model at 2-bit on a PS5 Slim; it reached 360 points on Hacker News.","key_facts":["Requirements: PS5 on firmware 7.00–13.60, jailbroken, with the kstuff-lite, etaHEN and ShadowMountPlus payloads; model and context share about 11.4 GB of console memory","Listed speeds (PS5 Slim): Qwen 3.5 0.8B Q4_K_M 207 tok/s; Qwen 3.5 9B Q4_K_M 55 tok/s; Qwen 3.8 27B UD-Q2_K_XL about 20 tok/s with 64k context","Endpoints: OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible APIs, plus a /v1/systemone endpoint for small decision models","Reach: Hacker News front page, 360 points (Oct 16, 2026); the repository gives no exact release date or AI-assistance disclosure"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["local-llm","llama-cpp","gguf","playstation","hobbyist","on-device"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAfter the PS5 jailbreak for firmware up to 13.60, a hobbyist ported llama.cpp so the console's GPU can run quantised open-weight models\nand act as a local inference server for coding tools that speak the OpenAI or Anthropic API.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt shows how far local inference has spread: a games console with about 16 GB of shared memory can serve a 27B model at usable speed.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-10-08-ai-decompiled-browser-game-ports","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-08-ai-decompiled-browser-game-ports/","date":"2026-10-08","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Hundreds of AI-decompiled game ports appear","deck":"Browser versions of Halo, Vice City and Black Ops go viral (8.2M-view post), credited to Claude Opus 5.5","takeaway":"It is a visible sign that frontier coding agents can now reverse-engineer large binaries, with direct consequences for game preservation, piracy and copyright enforcement.","category":"culture","category_label":"Culture","importance":3,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":14,"official":0,"filed":"2026-10-10","updated":"2026-10-15","orgs":["Anthropic"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-17","type":"filed","text":"Created (read the GitHub README)"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-17","run":null,"sources_read":"Read the GitHub README","updated":"2026-10-17","human_review":null,"version":null},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":169,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":108,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":199,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":138,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}