Colibri squeezes 744B model onto your laptop

🔥 What happened An open-source project called colibri runs massive mixture-of-experts models like the 744B-parameter GLM-5.2 on ordinary machines. Instead of loading the full model into RAM, it keeps only the active experts in memory and streams the rest from disk. Pure C, no GPU required, thirteen engines already working. 💡 Why it matters A 744B model normally demands hundreds of GB of VRAM — colibri reports just 9.9 GB resident memory and a 32-second startup. That puts frontier-class inference on hardware many engineers already own, no cloud bill attached. ⚡ Our take This is the real attack on cloud inference: not faster, just on your own box. Anyone still paying per prompt to an API should start sweating.