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AirLLM - Recent Updates - with Qwen3.8-27B, Kimi-K3 too

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AirLLM dramatically reduces inference memory usage, letting 70B large language models run on a single 4GB GPU card — without quantization, distillation, or pruning. You can even run 405B Llama 3.1 on 8GB , DeepSeek-V3 (671B) on ~12GB , and Kimi K3 (2.8T) — the largest open-source model released to…

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  1. 2026-08-20 10:45 · r/LocalLLaMA
    AirLLM - Recent Updates - with Qwen3.8-27B, Kimi-K3 too

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