Hello folks,
in October 2025 I mentioned in the Meetings board Benjamin Rosseaux’s work on a zero-dependency LLM inference engine called PasLLM. This work is now ready in a first version to be used. Can’t wait to try it!
You find the Pascal code here.
Salut,
Mathias
Hello Jarrod & all others that are interested in AI,
I attended the PASCAL Conference 2025 in Sundern Germany this year. At the conference Benjamin Rosseaux presented on his efforts to build a PASCAL implementation of an LLM neural network. In your presentation the server used Python to do the job, @Jarrod . In Benjamin’s implementation the calculations of the weights are done in PASCAL. This results in a much faster computation and reduced hardware requirements.
Benjamin suffers from the same motor neuron disease as Steven Hawking did. So his presentation consisted of slides he had prepared and text to voice he put into three videos on top of the slides.
You can watch these videos here:
PasLLM - Pascal Powerhouse - Zero-Dependency LLM Interference Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnKjYhJ8C1gMCP/Tool-Usage with PALM - Pascal-native LLM interference engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lml0V0zooLMPALM Unlikely AI Powerhouse (NotebookLM presentation about PALM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYG33LAhGxEMichael Van Canneyt, who works on the Free PASCAL compiler, showed some examples of how to use Benjamin’s work. One example was a connector for SQLite. Michael had a SQLite database of a school in the Netherlands. He told the AI that the table names are in dutch and that the machine should inspect the FK constraints and table columns. Then he asked question like: “How many students passed a biology exam last semester?” and Benjamin’s engine returned the correct number.
Yet there is no support for GPUs, but already now the AI engine is pretty fast. I wonder what Co-Pilot and ChatGPT will say when Benjamin’s version becomes available.
Salut,
Mathias