phi-4 mini

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A laptop screen showing a local AI language model running in a terminal window

three free AI models all claim a 128K memory — only one actually holds onto it

Phi-4 Mini, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.2 all advertise roughly the same 128K context window. Benchmark data says that number means something very different for each one.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 7 min

A desktop PC with a mid-range graphics card installed, the kind of 8GB hardware this guide is written for

your 8GB graphics card can run real local AI — you're probably picking the wrong model

Phi-4 Mini, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.2 all claim to fit — I checked which one actually leaves room to breathe.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 6 min