google-ai-edge

    google-ai-edge/LiteRT-LM

    LiteRT-LM is Google's production-ready, high-performance, open-source inference framework for deploying Large Language Models on edge devices.

    developer-tools
    edge-ai
    on-device-ai
    on-device-llm
    C++
    Apache-2.0
    6.8K stars
    781 forks
    6.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 4, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 49 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #9 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 5, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a high-performance, open-source inference framework for deploying Large Language Models on edge devices.
    • Enables efficient on-device AI with hardware acceleration across diverse platforms including mobile, desktop, and IoT devices.
    • Use for integrating state-of-the-art language models into Android apps with Kotlin for native performance.
    • Use for prototyping and scripting AI workflows in Python with stable API support.
    • Use for deploying multi-modal AI applications on resource-constrained devices like Raspberry Pi using C++.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    From the README

    LiteRT-LM is Google's production-ready, high-performance, open-source inference framework for deploying Large Language Models on edge devices.

    Deploy Gemma 4 across a broad range of hardware with stellar performance (blog).

    Excerpt from the google-ai-edge/LiteRT-LM README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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