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
- Download
Garlic-LLM-1.19.pkg. - Copy it to the console and install it like any other homebrew package (Settings → Debug Settings → Game → Package Installer).
- 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; a user also reports it working on a PS4 Slim with firmware 14.00) 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
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.