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Taobao's MNN Team Open-Sources MNN-Pocket-0.3B, a 173MB On-Device Model Built for Phone Apps

11.06

Alibaba's MNN team at Taobao has open-sourced MNN-Pocket-0.3B, a roughly 300-million-parameter language model designed to run inside mobile apps, IT Home reported on November 6.

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