As a russian, who kind of used to bots on russian internet, there a trick: if bots started defending something — that it means it’s true.
There were speculations that this “deal” not going thru and nothing more than a disinformation campaign. But if bots started defending it already, oh well.
On a side note, it’s funny how America slowly turning into russia 2.0






You don’t need 170+ GB of VRAM. Whole model can be run at around 1 token/second on a modern hardware from an ssd. Which is slow, don’t get me wrong, but it still somewhat useable.
Upd.Once again, for those who use AI because struggles to read: it is slow, but it is usable. Which is, by definition, means that you don’t need 170+ GB of VRAM to run this model. Period. It runs from ssd. That is a fact.