Run a 744B MoE model on consumer hardware
Prompt Engineering · youtube · 2026-07-20
A demo of **Colibri** running **GLM 5.2** on consumer hardware with about **25 GB of RAM**. The post highlights two key facts: - the model is a **744B MoE** - only about **40B parameters** are active per token Because MoE routes only a subset of experts each step, the author argues that only roughly **11 GB** of weights change token to token. The takeaway is that extremely large models can sometimes be made usable on modest hardware through routing and careful local execution.
Related event: Open-Source Colibri Runs 744B GLM-5.2 on Consumer Laptops(2 posts)→
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