Turbo1Bit – Run Bonsai-8B at 65K context in 3.9 GB RAM
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Turbo1Bit enables the Bonsai-8B language model to run at its full 65,000-token context on computers with just 8GB of memory by combining Flash Attention with quantized storage techniques, reducing memory usage by up to 2.65 times. The breakthrough allows the 8.2-billion parameter model to fit in 3.9GB instead of the usual 10.4GB required at maximum context length.
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