ModelBest's 35B vision model targets phones with 3 GB of memory
CEO Li Dahai's team says expert preloading makes the open model practical on mobile; the weights still rely on device storage, and the speed figures are company-reported.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: PR Newswire
Why it matters
ModelBest is testing whether expert scheduling can make a large open multimodal model usable on mobile hardware. Its memory and speed claims are company-reported; full storage, thermal and battery costs will determine how practical the approach is.
ModelBest CEO Li Dahai is betting that a large multimodal model can be useful on a phone if its full set of parameters does not need to sit in memory at once. ModelBest and the OpenBMB community released MiniCPM-V 4.7, a model family with a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts…