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Add dashboard screenshots to README (#1185)

7ff937d8a12652569a30fb40f9a76ef266adc42f · 2026-01-19 10:43:27 +0000 · Alex Cheema

## Motivation

The README showcases exo's features and benchmarks but doesn't show what
the dashboard actually looks like. Adding a screenshot helps users
understand what they'll get when they run exo.

## Changes

- Added dashboard screenshot to `docs/imgs/dashboard-cluster-view.png`:
Shows the cluster topology view with 4 × 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio
running DeepSeek v3.1 (8-bit) and Kimi-K2-Thinking (4-bit)
- Added a new "Dashboard" section to README.md below Features,
displaying the screenshot with caption

## Why It Works

Visual documentation helps users understand what exo offers before they
install it. The screenshot demonstrates the cluster management
capabilities.

## Test Plan

### Manual Testing
- Verified image renders correctly in GitHub markdown preview

### Automated Testing
- N/A - documentation only change

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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commit 7ff937d8a12652569a30fb40f9a76ef266adc42f
Author: Alex Cheema <41707476+AlexCheema@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 19 10:43:27 2026 +0000

    Add dashboard screenshots to README (#1185)
    
    ## Motivation
    
    The README showcases exo's features and benchmarks but doesn't show what
    the dashboard actually looks like. Adding a screenshot helps users
    understand what they'll get when they run exo.
    
    ## Changes
    
    - Added dashboard screenshot to `docs/imgs/dashboard-cluster-view.png`:
    Shows the cluster topology view with 4 × 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio
    running DeepSeek v3.1 (8-bit) and Kimi-K2-Thinking (4-bit)
    - Added a new "Dashboard" section to README.md below Features,
    displaying the screenshot with caption
    
    ## Why It Works
    
    Visual documentation helps users understand what exo offers before they
    install it. The screenshot demonstrates the cluster management
    capabilities.
    
    ## Test Plan
    
    ### Manual Testing
    - Verified image renders correctly in GitHub markdown preview
    
    ### Automated Testing
    - N/A - documentation only change
    
    Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 README.md                            |   9 +++++++++
 docs/imgs/dashboard-cluster-view.png | Bin 0 -> 191691 bytes
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2c79116c..2157c95f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ exo connects all your devices into an AI cluster. Not only does exo enable runni
 - **Tensor Parallelism**: exo supports sharding models, for up to 1.8x speedup on 2 devices and 3.2x speedup on 4 devices.
 - **MLX Support**: exo uses [MLX](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx) as an inference backend and [MLX distributed](https://ml-explore.github.io/mlx/build/html/usage/distributed.html) for distributed communication.
 
+## Dashboard
+
+exo includes a built-in dashboard for managing your cluster and chatting with models.
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="docs/imgs/dashboard-cluster-view.png" alt="exo dashboard - cluster view showing 4 x M3 Ultra Mac Studio with DeepSeek v3.1 and Kimi-K2-Thinking loaded" width="80%" />
+</p>
+<p align="center"><em>4 × 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio running DeepSeek v3.1 (8-bit) and Kimi-K2-Thinking (4-bit)</em></p>
+
 ## Benchmarks
 
 <details>
diff --git a/docs/imgs/dashboard-cluster-view.png b/docs/imgs/dashboard-cluster-view.png
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