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Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Large language models can be squeezed onto your phone — rather than needing 1000s of servers to run — after breakthrough

The logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024.

Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT need copious amounts of power to run so they are usually housed in vast data centers. But a new breakthrough could compress these AI models so they fit onto a smartphone or laptop.

A new algorithm, dubbed Calibration Aware Low precision Decomposition with Low Rank Adaptation (CALDERA), compresses the massive amounts of data needed to run a large language model (LLM) by trimming redundancies in the code and reducing the precision of its layers of information.

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