Running a 180B Model on a Laptop With No GPU: How 4-bit GGUF Keeps Full Accuracy
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A frontier-class model used to mean a rack of data-center GPUs. That assumption is what this post takes apart. POCKET-Darwin-180B-GGUF is a 4-bit build of Darwin-180B-RSI, a 180-billion-parameter model, packaged so it runs without a GPU . It ships as GGUF on Hugging Face and on ModelScope. The head…
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- 2026-10-06 00:42 · DEV Community — AI
Running a 180B Model on a Laptop With No GPU: How 4-bit GGUF Keeps Full Accuracy