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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 · US · Hardware · 11/8/2026, 7:20:00 AM

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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