Zinc, a new LLM inference engine written in Zig, enables cost-effective deployment of 35B parameter models on affordable AMD GPUs under $550

Zinc is an inference engine specifically designed to run large language models, built using the Zig programming language

The engine successfully runs 35B parameter models on AMD GPUs priced at approximately $550, making it a budget-friendly alternative to expensive hardware

The project is open-source and available on GitHub, suggesting potential for community contributions and further optimization

This development addresses the challenge of running large models on consumer-grade hardware rather than enterprise-level accelerators