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His point isn't that you can run a model on an average laptop, but that the same laptop can still run frontier models.

It speaks to the advancements in models that aren't just throwing more compute/ram at it.

Also, his laptop isn't that fancy.

> It claims to be small enough to run on consumer hardware. I just ran the 7B and 13B models on my 64GB M2 MacBook Pro!

From: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/