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i saw a comparison of the 8b model vs the dense 30b (iirc) dense model and it was almost the same... the 30b was slightly better on most tests but only barely
It's honestly incredible to see because 8b is getting to the point where it will run well on a lot of consumer hardware. If we can get current frontier performance at that size, then you really would be able to solve most tasks locally.
The 4-bit quantized GGUF for granite 4.1 is sub 5GB, so it's probably going to run on any modern machine even if it's not particularly built for Vram... 6 gigs is what I had on my old 1080 gpu.
https://huggingface.co/unsloth/granite-4.1-8b-GGUF/tree/main
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