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license: other license_name: mixed license_link: https://github.com/leonardo-alegria/garlic-llm language:

• en
• es
• pt
• ru
• it
• fr
• de tags:
• ps4
• homebrew
• qwen
• text-generation
• text-to-speech
• automatic-speech-recognition base_model:
• Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
• nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

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Garlic LLM for PS4

A 9-billion-parameter language model running on a PS4. Offline.

Garlic LLM is a homebrew app for the PlayStation 4. It runs Qwen3.5-9B on the console's own GPU, with no PC and no internet while it runs. It also listens, talks, and runs the Python it writes.

• Website: https://garlicllm.dev
• Source code (GPLv3): https://github.com/leonardo-alegria/garlic-llm

What is in this repository

File	Size	Contents
Garlic-LLM-1.19.pkg	5.66 GB	The app with all its models inside. This is the only file you need.

Install

1. Download Garlic-LLM-1.19.pkg.
2. Copy it to the console and install it like any other homebrew package (Settings → Debug Settings → Game → Package Installer).
3. Open Garlic LLM from the home screen.

To update, download the new package and install it over the old one.

Requirements: a PS4 running GoldHEN (tested on a base/Slim console with firmware 11.52) and about 6 GB of free space, or 12 GB if you copy the package to the console's own disk before installing it. The PS4 Pro is not tested yet.

What it does

Feature	Details
Text chat	Qwen3.5-9B at 31–39 tokens/s, and up to 43 tokens/s on code. 16K-token context.
Voice conversation	Chatterbox, in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French and German.
Dictation	Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, in 25 European languages.
Python mode	It writes MicroPython and the console runs it.
Think mode	The model reasons before it answers. Off by default.

The models inside the package

All are converted to the app's own formats and quantized, mostly to 4 bits; they are not usable with other runtimes.

Model	Author	Licence	Use
Qwen3.5-9B	Alibaba Qwen	Apache-2.0	Chat
Chatterbox Multilingual and Chatterbox-Turbo	Resemble AI	MIT	Text to speech
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3	NVIDIA	CC-BY-4.0	Speech to text

The app's code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Each model keeps its own licence. The full credits are in the source repository and ship inside the app.

Checksum

Garlic-LLM-1.19.pkg, SHA-256: 6a774c8532d6b1c1ea08bfde0fa91ea83e12643e24776a80b057df40e94ebc69

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Not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. PlayStation and PS4 are trademarks of their owners. The app is an ordinary homebrew package and contains no exploit.