A top AI model can weigh tens of gigabytes — too big for your phone. So how does the same model end up running on a laptop, even offline? The trick is quantization: a model is really just billions of numbers, and we round each one from 32 bits down to 4. That makes it ~4× smaller and faster, with only a sliver of quality lost — as long as you don't round too far.
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