PS5LM

llama.cpp on a jailbroken PlayStation 5. Run any GGUF language model on the console itself, first on its Zen 2 CPU, then on its GPU.

ps5lm.cobanov.dev: the full demo video and how it works

The first target is Qwen 3.8 (27B, hybrid Gated DeltaNet attention), the newest open Qwen. No one has run it on a PS5 yet.

Status: v0.1 is out. One payload, ps5lm.elf, opens a model library in the PS5's browser: download a model on the console, run it, chat. Small models for now (up to 1.6 GB, Qwen3.5 0.8B and 2B). See docs/ROADMAP.md and docs/CONSOLE.md.

Install

You need a PS5 you own on firmware 7.00 to 13.60, jailbroken, with a payload loader (Payload Manager from WebKit Autoloader, or elfldr on port 9021).

From Payload Manager, which also brings updates:

1. Settings: turn on Multiple Payload Sources.
2. Add the source https://ps5lm.cobanov.dev/payloads.json.
3. Install PS5LM from the list and load it.

Or by hand: download ps5lm.elf from the latest release and load it like any payload (upload it in Payload Manager, or send it to an ELF loader on port 9021).

Once it runs, the PS5's browser opens the PS5LM library. Press Download on a model, then Run, then Open chat. Type with the DualSense.

The library also works from a phone or computer on the same network at http://<console IP>:8082, and the chat at port 8081 speaks the OpenAI API. Models are stored in /data/PS5LM/models; a GGUF copied there over FTP shows up too.

Limits for now: a payload can only keep about 1.6 GB of model locked in memory without starving the home screen, so the catalog has Qwen3.5 0.8B (13 to 21 tok/s) and Qwen3.5 2B (about 9 tok/s). Bigger models need a native app (#4).

Why llama.cpp

Earlier PS5 LLM work hand-writes GPU kernels for one model at a time. PS5LM ports llama.cpp itself, so every architecture and every quantization llama.cpp supports comes along: Qwen, Llama, Mistral, Gemma, from 1-bit to 8-bit. Qwen 3.8's smallest open model is 27B, and only the 2 to 3 bit quants fit in the console's memory, which llama.cpp already has.

Layout

Path	What
third_party/llama.cpp	upstream llama.cpp, pinned as a submodule
ps5/compat	the few libc functions the console lacks
patches/	PS5 changes to llama.cpp's source, kept small
probes/	memprobe and threadprobe: what a payload gets on the console
scripts/	SDK setup, the llama.cpp cross build, sending payloads
docs/	roadmap, models that fit, porting notes, research

Building from source

Needs the ps5-payload-dev SDK and a host LLVM.

# macOS
brew install llvm@21 lld socat cmake ninja
# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install clang-18 lld-18 socat cmake ninja-build

git clone --recursive https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM
cd PS5LM
scripts/setup-sdk.sh
source scripts/env.sh

make -C probes/memprobe          # Phase 0 probe
scripts/build-llama.sh           # llama-cli, llama-server, llama-bench for the PS5

Running on the console

You need a PS5 you own on firmware 7.00 to 13.60, jailbroken, with an ELF loader listening on port 9021 (elfldr).

scripts/host-relapse.sh          # serves the Relapse exploit page; open it in the PS5's browser
export PS5_HOST=192.168.1.50     # your console
scripts/console-setup.sh         # FTP, kernel log and shell payloads
scripts/send.sh probes/memprobe/memprobe.elf

The probe streams its results back and also writes them to /data/PS5LM/memprobe.txt on the console.

With ftpsrv running too (port 2121), scripts/run.sh uploads a llama.cpp tool and starts it with arguments:

# copy a model to /data/PS5LM/models first (FTP or USB)
scripts/run.sh llama-cli -m /data/PS5LM/models/model.gguf -p "Hello from a PS5" -n 64
scripts/run.sh llama-server -m /data/PS5LM/models/model.gguf --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8081

Credits

• llama.cpp / ggml, which does the actual work.
• ps5-payload-dev (John Törnblom) for the SDK and the ELF loader.
• PS5SX2, ProsperoAI and PS5_Vulkan, whose notes on the console's memory and GPU this project leans on.

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later, see LICENSE. llama.cpp keeps its MIT licence. No Sony SDK files, keys, firmware or model weights are in this repository.

PS5LM is not affiliated with Sony Interactive Entertainment or Alibaba. "PlayStation" and "PS5" are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment.