How small can an LLM be and still speak coherent English? Sub-10M models fail
Holiday-Inspection75 · reddit · 2026-10-25
The poster hunts for the smallest LLM that can produce mostly grammatical, sensible English on CPU, hoping for under 10M parameters. Testing micro models like Supra-Mini-v6-1M yields gibberish output, worse than template-based generation. The thread asks which micro LLMs do better and what the realistic minimum parameter count is.
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