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Homelabber uses second-gen Optane memory sticks to run a 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model on CPU alone

Tom's Hardware (Computing & Hardware) · Nov 8, 2026 — 18:20 · 2 views · Original article ↗
Homelabber uses second-gen Optane memory sticks to run a 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model on CPU alone

A Reddit homelab user ran Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 CPU-only on Optane PMem 200 at 0.85 tokens/s with a 1-bit quant.

A Reddit homelab user ran Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 CPU-only on Optane PMem 200 at 0.85 tokens/s with a 1-bit quant.

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