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Developer gets GLM 5.2 running on regular PC with smart caching
A developer has created Colibrì, a tool that makes it possible to run Zhipu GLM 5.2 (a 744B Mixture-of-Experts model) on a regular computer with 32GB RAM. By converting the model to int4 and streaming experts from disk on-demand with LRU-caching, he achieves inference at ~0.1 tokens/second without a GPU.
WHY IT MATTERS
This demonstrates that very large models can be made practically accessible to people without AI-dedicated hardware, using smart memory management techniques. It opens up local frontier models to broader user groups.
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