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Aug 07, 2026

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Soup Project Claims to Fine-Tune 8B Models on 4 GB Laptop GPUs

A recently shared open-source project named "Soup" claims to enable the fine-tuning of 8-billion-parameter large language models (LLMs) on laptops equipped with just a 4 GB GPU. The project, posted to Hacker News by creator MakazhanAlpamys, utilizes a technique called "layer streaming" to achieve this feat, according to its GitHub page.

Laptop with a bowl of soup and a graphic processing unit.

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