New video explains quantization basics: how 405B weights shrink from 810GB to ~200GB
arpit_bhayani · x · 2026-09-08
Engineer arpitbhayani published a fundamentals video on quantization, covering what it is, what model weights actually are in memory, and how converting 16-bit floats to 4-bit integers makes inference faster and cheaper. Example: Llama 3.1's 405B parameters need roughly 810GB at 16-bit, dropping to 200GB at 4-bit — still huge, but finally approachable.
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