His point isn't that you can run a model on an average laptop, but that the same laptop can still run frontier models. It speaks to the advancements in models

His point isn't that you can run a model on an average laptop, but that the same laptop can still run frontier models. It speaks to the advancements in models that aren't just throwing more compute/ram at it. Also, his laptop isn't that fancy. > It claims to be small enough to run on consumer hardware. I just ran the 7B and 13B models on my 64GB M2 MacBook Pro! From: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/ https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/