Video models that run on 16 GB

22 models with published weights that fit in 16 GB — the common laptop. Counted at four-bit quantisation, weights only, leaving the machine about a third of its memory and a gigabyte for context: room for roughly 16 billion parameters. A mixture of experts is counted in full, because it is held in full even though only a few experts compute.

The commonest laptop configuration, and the point where a genuinely useful model runs locally: fourteen billion parameters at four-bit fits with room to spare for the context. Expect a capable general assistant that will not match the frontier, and remember that anything else the machine is doing competes for the same memory.

Models that generate moving footage, most of them now with sound. Priced by the second of output, sometimes doubled for higher resolution, which makes this the most expensive thing in the catalogue to experiment with — a minute of 1080p can cost more than a million tokens of text. Check the maximum clip length and whether it will continue from an image you supply.

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Video models Models that run on 16 GB