qwen2.5-72b-instruct-gguf

Qwen2.5 72b Instruct (GGUF, Q4_K_M)

Production-ready GGUF quantization of Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct for distributed text generation and conversation — powered by the Aether edge inference runtime on Edgework.ai.

Model Details

Usage

With llama.cpp

./llama-cli -m Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf -p "Your prompt here" -n 256

With Aether (Distributed Inference)

This model is deployed across the Aether distributed inference network. Weights are layer-sharded and distributed across multiple edge nodes for parallel inference.

Also available: .knot (sovereign format)

This repo ships qwen2.5-72b-instruct.knot — the model weights in the KNOT container that the Aether distributed-inference runtime loads natively (the GGUF, when present, sits right beside it). A KNOT is a single self-describing file with a JSON table-of-contents, so any single tensor is one HTTP Range request — ideal for streaming weights to edge nodes.

huggingface-cli download forkjoin-ai/qwen2.5-72b-instruct-gguf qwen2.5-72b-instruct.knot --local-dir ./knots

Full format spec: KNOT_FORMAT.md. Inspect the header with bun run open-source/bitwise/scripts/dump-knot.ts qwen2.5-72b-instruct.knot.

Deployment Architecture

This model runs on the Aether distributed inference runtime — a custom engine that shards model layers across multiple nodes for parallel execution:

1. Coordinator receives requests and manages token generation
2. Layer nodes each hold a subset of model layers (6 nodes for this model)
3. Hidden states flow between nodes via gRPC
4. Zero cold start via warm pool scheduling

Deployed via Edgework.ai — bringing fast, cheap, and private inference as close to the user as possible.

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We quantize and publish production-ready models for distributed edge inference via the Aether runtime. Every release is tested for correctness and stability before publication.

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