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Large Language ModelsOpen-Source AIr/MachineLearningPublished: Aug 23, 2026, 04:01 JST

Developer builds 250M-parameter LLM in 60 MB with 1-bit compression

Developer builds 250M-parameter LLM in 60 MB with 1-bit compression

A developer trained a 250M parameter language model from scratch on 30B tokens, quantized it to under 2 bits, and achieved a 60 MB deployment footprint. The model runs at around 400 tokens per second on a standard laptop CPU without a GPU, using about 80 MB of RAM.

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