Quantization compresses an AI model by reducing the precision of the numbers that make up its weights, for example from 16 bits down to 4. The model loses a touch of finesse but becomes about four times lighter, and faster, letting it run on standard hardware rather than a specialised GPU server.
In practice at Gensai
Quantization is what allowed Gensai to run the “Monsters of the Oceans” installation fully locally on a simple Mac Mini.
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