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Run MiniCPM-V 4.7, a Free 35B AI, on Your Laptop or iPhone

A free, open-source 35B model with only about 3B parameters active at a time: how to run it with Ollama or build OpenBMB's iPhone app, what OpenBMB's own benchmarks say, and the catch

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MiniCPM-V 4.7 is the newest model from OpenBMB, released on 12 October 2026. It is the first mixture-of-experts model in the MiniCPM-V series: 35 billion parameters in total, but only about 3 billion of them wake up for each token (that is the A3B in 35B-A3B). It reads single images, several images and video, and its licence is Apache 2.0, so it is free and open source.

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