Mert Cobanov
Mert Cobanov is an independent senior AI engineer and creator who builds AI agents with complex memory, backend systems, vector-database applications, diffusion-model training and generative pipelines. His personal site publishes technical writing and catalogs software, hardware, AI experiments and open-source libraries.
At a Glance
- AI and machine-learning engineers
- Developers building agentic applications and coding workflows
- Generative-art practitioners and creative technologists
- Homelab and self-hosting enthusiasts
- +2 more
AI Tools by Mert Cobanov
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PS5LM
Local LLM Server for PS5
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Latest News
PS5LM v0.9.1 released with fixes for a full log queue/server hang and PS5 /data storage handling.
PS5LM v0.9.0 released as a standalone PS5 app with a TV UI and Ollaya-powered decision models.
Published Vibe Coding, the Slot Machine and Me, reflecting on the addictive feedback loop of AI-assisted coding.
Announced the initial llama.cpp port to a jailbroken PS5, with Qwen 3.5 0.8B running on the console CPU.
Products & Services
Free GPL-3.0 open-source model server/homebrew app for a jailbroken PlayStation 5. It loads GGUF models onto the PS5 GPU through llama.cpp's Vulkan backend and exposes OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions, Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages and a browser/TV interface.
Local serving layer for decision models including Laya, d1, NLI and GLiClass, behind a TypeSafe-compatible API.
Mobile control interface for coding agents on iOS and Android.
Bilingual, sourced five-minute daily briefing for AI and technology news.
Market Position
Mert's work is positioned as a highly technical, independent alternative to cloud-first AI tooling: local, open-weight, inspectable and often experimental. PS5LM is differentiated from cloud LLM APIs and conventional local runtimes such as Ollama/llama.cpp-on-PC by using a jailbroken PS5's RDNA 2 GPU as a network model server with OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible interfaces; Ollaya targets decision-model serving rather than only text generation.
Leadership
Founders
Mert Cobanov
Senior AI engineer; his public profile describes 7+ years in AI, beginning with computer vision and tabular machine learning at Bosch, followed by four years focused on generative AI and diffusion models. He is currently identified publicly as a Senior AI Engineer at Refik Anadol Studio, where he works on AI-agent systems for Dataland, the studio's AI museum in Los Angeles.
Executive Team
Mert Cobanov
Independent creator; Senior AI Engineer
AI engineer and software creator whose public profile lists earlier computer-vision/tabular-ML work at Bosch, subsequent generative-AI and diffusion experience, and current Senior AI Engineer work at Refik Anadol Studio.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The personal site presents Mert's work as open-source projects, free web tools, educational writing and small software products. PS5LM is explicitly free and GPL-3.0; its local operation requires no cloud account. No paid subscription, API pricing or commercial revenue model was identified in the reviewed sources.
Pricing Tiers
Open source under GPL-3.0; requires a jailbroken PS5 the user owns.
Target Markets
- AI and machine-learning engineers
- Developers building agentic applications and coding workflows
- Generative-art practitioners and creative technologists
- Homelab and self-hosting enthusiasts
- PlayStation 5 homebrew and hardware tinkerers
- Researchers and developers interested in local/private inference
- Developing and operating AI agents with persistent/complex memory
- Local and private LLM inference without cloud services
- Running open-weight language and decision models on a jailbroken PS5
- Connecting coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex and opencode to a local model server
- Diffusion-model training, image understanding and generative-art production
- Developer tooling, homelabs, retro hardware and experimental interactive software