Run a 2.78T Parameter Model on 8GB RAM: Open-Sourced C99 Engine
dr_cintas · x · 2026-08-07
Developer FareedKhan has created an open-source project called kimi-k3-in-c, successfully running a massive 2.78-trillion-parameter model on a standard CPU with only 8.24 GB of physical RAM.
- Minimalist Architecture: The project is a 176KB pure C99 engine with absolutely no dependencies on GPUs, CUDA, or heavy external frameworks.
- Memory Optimization: Its core mechanism streams the model's experts from disk on demand rather than loading the entire model into memory, drastically lowering hardware barriers.
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