AirLLM: Run 70B LLMs on a Single 4GB GPU (Fast Look)

Ever been told your 4GB GPU can’t run anything serious? Yeah, me too. But every local-LLM guide says “you need at least 16GB VRAM for a 7B model,” and my RTX 3050 laptop is sitting here calling that a lie. Turns out the model card might be wrong — not the hardware. So AirLLM (25.2k stars, Apache-2.0) runs a full 70B Llama on a single 4GB card, no quantization tricks, and it crossed the Trending list again this week. ...

August 2, 2026 · 5 min · GitHubDigger