Running a 26B LLM locally with no GPU

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The article claims that a 26B LLM can be run locally using only a CPU, without any GPU hardware.
The author reports previously achieving strong results with 12B models on an Intel i5-8500 and 32GB of RAM, purely on CPU.
They say a version of Gemma 4 (26B) runs “really fast” on the same machine, suggesting significant CPU-friendly performance.
The piece emphasizes how much local AI capability is possible without specialized GPU acceleration, based on the author’s hands-on experience.

This is crazy. I've been running local LLMs on CPU only for awhile now and have great results with 12B models running on an i5-8500 and only 32GB of RAM with no GPU. But I've got a version of Gemma4 26B running really fast on the same machine which isn't even breaking a sweat.

It is simply amazing what can run without a GPU.

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