Running a 744B parameter model on a desktop, and why the trick is placement rather than compression
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Most "run a big model at home" projects are really compression projects. Quantize harder, prune, distill, and eventually a smaller model wearing a big model's name fits in your VRAM. Colibri does something else, and the idea is worth understanding even if you never run it. It is an inference engine…
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- 2026-09-17 07:46 · DEV Community — AI
Running a 744B parameter model on a desktop, and why the trick is placement rather than compression