The AirLLM Mirage: Why ‘Running’ a 70B Model on a 4GB GPU Is a Dangerous Illusion
AirLLM enables running massive 70B models on 4GB GPUs via dynamic layer swapping, but extreme latency makes it practically unusable for interaction. It’s a technical party trick that gives a false sense of empowerment, distracting from true democratization through sparsification or new hardware algorithms.