Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Coder Hits 775K Downloads Running on 8GB GPUs

A community 4-bit AWQ build of Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct is pulling in three quarters of a million downloads, shrinking the model to under 6GB of VRAM.

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2026-10-09 22:00 · AlphaSignal
Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Coder Hits 775K Downloads Running on 8GB GPUs

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