Christopher Stanton

You can now run 70B LLMs on a 4GB GPU. AirLLM just made massive models usable on low-memory hardware. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 AirLLM released memory-optimized inference for large language models. It runs 70B models on 4GB VRAM. It can even run 405B Llama 3.1 on 8GB VRAM. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 AirLLM loads models one layer at a time. Instead of loading everything: → Load a layer → Run computation → Free memory → Load the next layer This keeps GPU memory usage extremely low. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 • No quantization required by default • Optional 4-bit or 8-bit weight compression • Same API as Hugging Face Transformers • Supports CPU and GPU inference • Works on Linux and macOS Apple Silicon 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼 • Run Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Mixtral locally • Test large models without cloud GPUs • Prototype agents on cheap hardware