Model comparison

canary-1b-v2 vs whisper-large-v3

At Q4_K_M, canary-1b-v2 is the smaller download — 735,476,448 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

canary-1b-v2whisper-large-v3
Parameters980M1.5B
Architecturecanarywhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1218
Smallest quantization0.37 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.68 GiB0.93 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextcanary-1b-v2whisper-large-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072