FreeToken: run 290B+ MoE models locally on a gaming PC, no big VRAM needed

gnukeith · x · 2026-08-22

Open-source project FreeToken (FlashML-org) is an edge-native MoE serving engine for running frontier-scale 290B+ open-weight MoE models on consumer hardware like a 5090 with large system RAM, at interactive speeds.

It treats heterogeneous edge resources—GPU, CPU, host memory, interconnects—as one elastic inference platform, with bandwidth-adaptive CPU–GPU co-execution (q policy), full-layer double-buffered prefill streaming, global LRU expert caching, the FTW fast weight format, and semantic-anchor checkpointing for KV cache. Nearly 300 stars on GitHub so far.

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