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Developer enables large MiniMax-M2 model to run on 32GB RAM laptop

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A developer has created a C-based inference engine called Picchio that allows large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models to run on systems with less RAM than the model size by streaming experts from disk. The project recently added support for the MiniMax-M2 model, which, when converted to INT4, is approximately 122 GB. This setup achieved about 0.48 tokens per second on a 12-core laptop with 32 GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD, demonstrating that cache size is a critical factor for performance. AI

IMPACT Enables running large AI models on consumer-grade hardware, potentially lowering the barrier to entry for AI experimentation.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new inference engine that enables existing models to run on less hardware, rather than a new model release or research breakthrough.

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Developer enables large MiniMax-M2 model to run on 32GB RAM laptop

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  1. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/WritHerAI ·

    MiniMax-M2 (230B) running from disk on a 32 GB laptop, CPU only

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi all, I've been working on a small hobby project called Picchio, an inference engine in plain C for MoE models bigger than your RAM. It keeps the dense part in memory and reads the experts from the SSD only when they're needed, with a cache for…

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