Conversation models that run on 96 GB

600 models with published weights that fit in 96 GB — a MacBook Pro with 96. Counted at four-bit quantisation, weights only, leaving the machine about a third of its memory and a gigabyte for context: room for roughly 102 billion parameters. A mixture of experts is counted in full, because it is held in full even though only a few experts compute. 600 in all, a hundred to a page; this is page 3 of 6.

An Apple configuration for people who intend to run models rather than occasionally try one. Comfortably holds the seventy-billion class with a very long context, or a mixture-of-experts model whose active parameters are few but whose weights are all resident.

Models that answer in prose across whatever subject you put to them. This is the largest category and the least differentiated: most of them are competent at most things, so the choice usually comes down to price, context length and how the maker behaves about availability. Look at what a model costs per million tokens in and out — the output rate is often four or five times the input rate, and it is the one that decides your bill.

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Conversation models Models that run on 96 GB