π± POCKET β a 35-billion-parameter model that runs on your iPhone, and on your PC with no GPU
We're releasing POCKET, VIDRAFT's flagship Darwin-36B-Opus compressed for on-device use. No fork, no CUDA, no cloud β it runs on stock llama.cpp. It's a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model (256 experts, only 8 active per token), so the file can be large while the work per token stays small. That's what lets a 35B model run on a phone, and generate fast on a CPU with no graphics card.
Measured (POCKET-35B IQ1_M vs Bonsai-27B Q1_0): β’ CPU generate (Xeon, 16 threads): 27.0 vs 10.1 tok/s β 2.69Γ faster β’ GPU generate (H100): 197 vs 89 tok/s β 2.22Γ faster β’ GPU prompt processing (H100): 753 vs 1816 β 0.41Γ (Bonsai wins this one β MoE prefill wakes every expert, so sparsity stops helping there. We say so.) β’ Quality (HellaSwag, 400 q): 61.0% vs 60.0% β a tie (confidence intervals overlap)
On a real consumer laptop β MacBook M3 Pro (18 GB) β POCKET wins every axis, prompt processing included: β’ Metal generate: 25.4 vs 12.8 β 1.99Γ β’ CPU generate: 13.8 vs 4.4 β 3.13Γ β’ Metal prompt: 240.7 vs 73.4 β 3.28Γ
One more quiet fact: the same-size, quality-oriented rival Ternary-Bonsai-27B (7.2 GB) fails to load in upstream llama.cpp at all β it needs the PrismML fork. POCKET runs on the tools you already have: LM Studio, Ollama, PocketPal, MLX.