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Curie by colibrì: I designed a 17B model to run from SSD on ordinary hardware

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A month ago, I started building colibrì to answer a question: Do you really need a $30,000 machine to run a model whose weights fit on a $60 SSD? colibrì treats SSD, RAM and GPU as a single memory hierarchy. It can run models that do not fit entirely in RAM or VRAM, including models with hundreds o…

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  1. 2026-09-11 19:25 · r/LocalLLM
    Curie by colibrì: I designed a 17B model to run from SSD on ordinary hardware

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