Qwen 27B quantized runs on a plane, nearly matches frontier models from 6 months ago
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-18
A user ran a quantized Qwen 27B locally on a flight in under 20GB of RAM and found it excellent — only minor sycophancy and an initial Chinese reply.\n\nThey gave it the hardest problem set from their functional analysis class; it solved all but the hardest one correctly. The user marvels at fitting something smarter than 99% of humans into 20GB, a post reshared by ggerganov (llama.cpp author).
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