SwiftLM: Pure-Swift Apple Silicon LLM inference server—no Python, runs big models on low-RAM Macs
Summary
SwiftLM is a Swift-native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon that runs large models without Python, using SSD streaming to load MoE weights and enabling 122B models on 64 GB Macs.
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