Ling Tiny 3.0 MoE Achieves 10 Tokens Per Second on Legacy CPUs
September 25, 2026
Ling Tiny 3.0 is an 8B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 1B active parameters. Real-world testing on a 2017 Intel i5 laptop with 8GB RAM demonstrated 10 tokens per second during multi-turn coding tasks via llama.cpp.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can target extremely low-spec edge hardware for agentic tasks using 1B active parameter MoE models.
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founderThis signals a market opportunity for high-utility AI running on ubiquitous, aging consumer hardware.