A 'Flash' Model Is Now 512GB — 100GB Used to Be Considered Huge
Terminator857 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Redditor jokes that a model marketed as a fast "Flash" variant now weighs 512GB, when just a few years ago 100GB was considered a very large language model. By old standards, anything under 100GB today would be a "tiny model." A snapshot of just how fast model sizes are inflating.
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