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A 180B model that tops seven Hugging Face leaderboards now runs on a laptop: no GPU needed

Running a frontier-class model used to mean a rack of data-center GPUs. Not anymore. VIDRAFT has released POCKET-Darwin-180B , a compressed build of Darwin-180B-RSI , the model that holds first place on seven Hugging Face official leaderboards (self-reported), that runs without a GPU . It is being…

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  1. 2026-10-02 05:40 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    A 180B model that tops seven Hugging Face leaderboards now runs on a laptop: no GPU needed

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