10th October 2025 - Link Blog
Video of GPT-OSS 20B running on a phone. GPT-OSS 20B is a very good model. At launch OpenAI claimed:
The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge devices with just 16 GB of memory
Nexa AI just posted a video on Twitter demonstrating exactly that: the full GPT-OSS 20B running on a Snapdragon Gen 5 phone in their Nexa Studio Android app. It requires at least 16GB of RAM, and benefits from Snapdragon using a similar trick to Apple Silicon where the system RAM is available to both the CPU and the GPU.
The latest iPhone 17 Pro Max is still stuck at 12GB of RAM, presumably not enough to run this same model.
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