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The 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts model has 35B total parameters, with approximately 3 billion parameters actually activated per inference, making it suitable for running on GPUs with 16 GB of VRAM.
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7/15/2026
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Valid until: 10/13/2026(expired)
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