Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but "30B parameters" refers to a matrix with 30B elements, and assuming all the numbers are 16 bit, then that's 2 bytes * 3

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but "30B parameters" refers to a matrix with 30B elements, and assuming all the numbers are 16 bit, then that's 2 bytes * 30B = 60GB.