Hardware & Robotics

Someone Just Ran a 2.78 Trillion Parameter AI on a Cheap Laptop

Someone Just Ran a 2.78 Trillion Parameter AI on a Cheap Laptop

Your PC can now run a 2.78T AI model. And it only needs around 8GB of RAM.

That sounds impossible.

But an open-source project called kimi-k3-in- c is making it work on a regular PC. No GPU required.

The engine streams model experts from disk and only activates 16 out of 896 experts for each token.

It still needs a fast, large NVMe drive and isn't exactly speedy.

But the bigger idea is fascinating:

You don't always need the whole model in memory to use it.

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