Instructions to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with llama.cpp:

Install (macOS, Linux)

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-app
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama serve -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama cli -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Llama new
LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Ollama
How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k
```
Unsloth Desktop

How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "llama-cpp": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Docker Model Runner
How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k
```

Lemonade

How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.Edge0-120B-q3k-{{QUANT_TAG}}

List all available models

lemonade list

Hermes Agent

How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat

OpenClaw

How to use Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k with OpenClaw:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k" \
  --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

Edge0

Edge0-120B · Q3_K

Think big. Run here. A 120B agent. On one consumer GPU. Sparse. By design. Latent MoE. Trained natively at 4 bits.

Quality · Speed · Architecture · Quick start

A 120B agent for local inference.

144.6 tok/s agent decode · 4576.5 tok/s 16K prefill · 75.3 terminal-bench 2.1.

Throughput measured on RTX 5090 D 24 GB · Q3_K.

A latent sparse MoE: 48 layers, 512 experts, 10 active per token, 256K context, trained natively at 4 bits.

This repository: Edge0-120B · Q3_K

ⓘ 120B Q3_K was tested with a 16 GiB VRAM + 20 GiB host RAM budget on RTX 5090 D 24 GB. These are test limits, not minimum system requirements; see the speed table and residency figures below.

Model overview

Q3_K · RTX 5090 D 24 GB. Prefill throughput uses a 16K-token input; weight sizes are listed separately for each format.

Quality

Higher is better. Results are listed by model.

Speed

Throughput is shown in tok/s, grouped by hardware and build. The summary above uses Q3_K on RTX 5090 D 24 GB.

Full speed table · all reported machines and builds

Highlighted rows show the Q3_K build in this repository.

Machine	Build	4K prefill	16K prefill	Chat decode	Agent decode
RTX 5090 D 24 GB	Q3_K	3236.7	4576.5	130.2	144.6
RTX 5090 D 24 GB	NVFP4	2668.5	4357.1	124.9	135.5
RTX 4090 24 GB	Q3_K	2637.5	3551.1	95.0	104.9
RTX Spark N1X 60 GiB	Q3_K	987.0	1081.7	47.2	68.4
RTX Spark N1X 60 GiB	NVFP4	996.4	1066.9	45.1	68.9
Apple M2 Ultra (Metal)	Q3_K	867.6	908.7	60.4	63.0
16 GiB VRAM + 20 GiB RAM	Q3_K	430	778	62.4	73.3
16 GiB VRAM + 20 GiB RAM	NVFP4	361.1	619.7	51.3	59.9

Measurement conditions · constrained budget and memory residency

16 GiB VRAM + 20 GiB RAM rows are the RTX 5090 D 24 GB again, constrained by cgroup to a 16 GiB VRAM and 20 GiB system-RAM budget — not a different card. With residency on, the same card holds Q3_K (27.98 GiB of weights) as 22.93 GiB VRAM + 18.40 GiB RAM, and NVFP4 (32.96 GiB) as 23.02 GiB VRAM + 23.40 GiB RAM — disjoint expert sets, nothing counted twice.

In action

These demonstrations were recorded with Edge0-145B.

Recorded with Edge0-145BOpen video ↗

Architecture

Architecture details · diagram, configuration and expert routing

	Edge0-120B
Total parameters	120B · 8.64 B active per token
Layers	48 · hybrid attention, full every 4 layers + sparse indexer
Experts	512 per layer, 10 routed + 1 shared active per token, SwiGLU width 640
Expert pool	60.4 B parameters at latent width ℓ = 1280
PLE	51.2 B n-gram embedding table, fp8, memory-mapped
MTP head	1.26 B draft model, 512 experts, for speculative decode
Context	256K · KV int8 with 32K resident
Builds	Q3_K 27.98 GiB · NVFP4 32.96 GiB

Left: the stack the model actually runs — token embedding, 48 hybrid-attention layers, final norm, lm_head. Right: one layer opened up. Attention reads and writes the full 2560 width. D then projects the token down to ℓ per routing group, the router picks 10 of 512 experts, each expert runs ℓ → 640 → ℓ, a shared expert runs alongside, and U projects the combined result back to 2560.

Everything outside the expert pool stays at 2560: D and U are shared, one copy per layer. Only the 512 experts work at ℓ. That is why an expert is a fixed 1,164,800 B record — the engine keeps a few thousand of them on the card and streams the rest from host memory, at a cost that tracks how many experts are resident and not how big the model is.

Quick start

Each model folder (Q3_K or NVFP4, Edge0-145B or Edge0-120B) runs on Edge0 through edge0-infer, from the command line or from the Edge0 Chat desktop app. Keep the folder as it is: edge0-infer identifies the model by model_name in its model.json.

Platform & documentation notes

The build instructions target NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA 13 on Linux or Windows (x64 or ARM64). The Apple M2 Ultra measurements use Metal; they do not establish macOS release availability.

Build & command-line instructions

1. Build. Clone the repository, then build two parts:

git clone https://github.com/Edge0-AI/Edge0.git edge0

edge0-strata, the engine: follow "Build (Linux, NVIDIA)" or "Build (Windows, NVIDIA)" in edge0-strata/EDGE0.md.
edge0-infer: follow "Build" (Linux) or "Windows" in edge0-infer/docs/getting-started.md.

2. Run from the command line. Pass one model folder, such as Edge0-120B-q3k, not the folder that holds several of them. On Windows the program is build\windows\bin\edge0-infer.exe.

build/cpu/bin/edge0-infer serve --model /path/to/Edge0-120B-q3k

It prints Listening: http://127.0.0.1:8000 model=<name> once the weights are loaded, where <name> is edge0_120b, and then serves OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints:

curl localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"model":"edge0_120b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}],"max_tokens":64}'

edge0-infer chat --model /path/to/Edge0-120B-q3k opens an interactive session instead. More options: edge0-infer/docs/edge0-120b.md.

Desktop app · Windows

⬇️ Download: GitHub Releases

Open Edge0 Chat on Windows and choose a model folder, such as Edge0-120B-q3k, to run the model locally. To build the app from source, follow the Edge0 Chat guide.

Acknowledgements

Credits & license

We thank the teams behind Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Strata for sharing their work with the community. Edge0 extends the Strata engine with latent MoE support.

Model license. Edge0-specific contributions are provided under the Edge0 Community Model License 1.0, only to the extent that Edge0 owns or is authorized to license them. Qwen materials remain subject to the Qwen Community License 1.0. Both sets of applicable terms must be followed; see NOTICE and the release scope.

The Edge0 license permits personal use, research, modification, noncommercial sharing, internal use, and commercial use of generated outputs, subject to applicable upstream conditions. Selling or commercially bundling the model, operating a commercial model service, or offering an independent commercial coding or office assistant using it requires a separate written Edge0 license. See LICENSE for the precise scope and exceptions.

Commercial licensing: info@edge0.ai. Edge0 permission does not waive Qwen's separate authorization or attribution requirements. Framework code retains its Apache-2.0 license; Strata retains its MIT license. Existing valid grants are not revoked.

Downloads last month: -

GGUF

Model size

5B params

Architecture

qwen4exp

Hardware compatibility

We're not able to determine the quantization variants.

View all variants

Model tree for Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Base model

Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Quantized

(622)

this model

Edge0
/

Edge0-120B-q3k

Edge0-120B · Q3_K

Quality

Speed

In action

Architecture

Quick start

Acknowledgements

Model tree for Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k

Space using Edge0/Edge0-120B-q3k 1