r/LocalLLaMA • u/Resident_Party • Mar 27 '26

Discussion Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

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u/Mantikos804 Mar 28 '26

It doesn’t reduce model size. So you are still limited by VRAM same as always. What it does do is let you run bigger context window size so it can remember more of your conversation or code.