Thanks. Did you need to use Prism's llama.cpp fork to run this?

andai · 2026-04-01T03:35:53 1775014553

Could you elaborate on what you did to get it working? I built it from source, but couldn't get it (the 4B model) to produce coherent English.

Sample output below (the model's response to "hi" in the forked llama-cli):

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freakynit · 2026-04-01T04:28:55 1775017735

I have older M1 air with 8GB, but still getting ober 23 t/s on 4B model.. and the quality of outputs is on par with top models of similar size.

1. Clone their forked repo: `git clone https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/llama.cpp.git`

2. Then (assuming you already have xcode build tools installed):

  cd llama.cpp
  cmake -B build -DGGML_METAL=ON
  cmake --build build --config Release -j$(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)

3. Finally, run it with (you can adjust arguments):

  ./build/bin/llama-server -m ~/Downloads/Bonsai-8B.gguf --port 80 --host 0.0.0.0 --ctx-size 0 --parallel 4 --flash-attn on --no-perf --log-colors on --api-key some_api_key_string

Model was first downloaded from: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-gguf/tree/main

freakynit · 2026-04-01T04:57:30 1775019450

To the author: why is this taking 4.56GB ? I was expecting this to be under 1GB for 4B model. https://ibb.co/CprTGZ1c

And this is when Im serving zero prompts.. just loaded the model (using llama-server).

jjcm · 2026-04-01T03:46:23 1775015183

I did this: https://image.non.io/2093de83-97f6-43e1-a95e-3667b6d89b3f.we...

Literally just downloaded the model into a folder, opened cursor in that folder, and told it to get it running.

Prompt: The gguf for bonsai 8b are in this local project. Get it up and running so I can chat with it. I don't care through what interface. Just get things going quickly. Run it locally - I have plenty of vram. https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-gguf/tree/main

I had to ask it to increase the context window size to 64k, but other than that it got it running just fine. After that I just told ngrok the port I was serving it on and voila.