Images models that run on 128 GB

120 models with published weights that fit in 128 GB — a large Mac or a server card. Counted at four-bit quantisation, weights only, leaving the machine about a third of its memory and a gigabyte for context: room for roughly 136 billion parameters. A mixture of experts is counted in full, because it is held in full even though only a few experts compute. 120 in all, a hundred to a page; this is page 1 of 2.

A large Mac or a server card. This is where the biggest openly published models come within reach — and where the distinction between total and active parameters starts to decide everything, because a mixture of experts computes with a fraction of itself and must still be held whole.

Models that make pictures from a description, and increasingly edit the ones you give them. Priced per image, sometimes by resolution, so the rate card reads nothing like a language model's. Beyond the look of the output, the practical differences are whether it can render legible text, whether it will edit rather than regenerate, and what the licence says about selling what comes out.

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Images models Models that run on 128 GB