FreeLLMgranite-switch-4.1-30b: 30B parameters, free to download
granite-switch-4.1-30b by Ibm-granite came out on 14 Oct 2026, with open weights on Hugging Face. At 4-bit it needs about 21 GB of memory.
What the video says
A new free AI model with 30 billion parameters.
It comes from Ibm-granite, with open weights.
Can your PC run it? At 4-bit it needs about 21 gigabytes. You need at least an RTX 3090.
It reads up to 128 thousand tokens at once.
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Hardware
Memory at 4-bit with an 8K context, from our simulator. To check your own setup, use the Run at home simulator.
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