Cola2: 9B parameters, free to download
Cola2 by ByteDance-Seed came out on 6 Nov 2026, with open weights on Hugging Face. At 4-bit it needs about 8 GB of memory.
What the video says
A new free AI model with 9 billion parameters.
It comes from ByteDance-Seed, with open weights.
Can your PC run it? At 4-bit it needs about 8 gigabytes. You need at least an RTX 4060.
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