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Run 120B-parameter MoE LLM on mid-range Android phone CPU-only

A 120 billion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) language model can now run on mid-range Android phones using only the CPU via llama.cpp. This was shared on Hacker News with a link to the GitHub repository BigMoeOnEdge.

Source: Hacker News · github.com Published 2026-07-19T17:17:43+00:00 Detected 2026-07-20T09:19:46+00:00
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A 120 billion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) language model can now run on mid-range Android phones using only the CPU via llama.cpp. This was shared on Hacker News with a link to the GitHub repository BigMoeOnEdge.

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Running such a large model on a mid-range phone CPU without specialized hardware shows progress in making powerful LLMs more accessible and portable. It could enable advanced AI applications on everyday mobile devices without relying on cloud services.

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