JustVugg/colibri

Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦

Language modelsC

6.1 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

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About the project

A pure-C, zero-dependency inference engine for running large MoE models (744B–2.8T parameters) on consumer hardware by treating VRAM, RAM, and storage as a single multitier hierarchy and streaming experts from disk.

Useful for

Run a chat with the 744B GLM-5.2 model locally via coli chat
Launch the coli web dashboard to watch expert routing and token metrics
Experiment with placing experts across VRAM, RAM, and NVMe to speed up decoding

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1,036 stars today. The usual pace is 100 per day, so that's 10× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 9.7× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending today: #1, +960 stars.
Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #5.
About 135 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 29,747
Stars in a day: 1,048
Forks: 3,241
Issues and pull requests: 1,429
Watchers: 260
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.11.0 · September 13, 2026
Created: July 1, 2026
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026GitHub Trending today: #1, +960 stars; Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #5

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