@DivyanshT91162: Local LLMs just hit a whole new level This Hugging Face release is actually insane: "gpt-oss-20b-tq3" An official 20B+ …
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A new 20B+ parameter MoE model from OpenAI, quantized to 3-bit via TurboQuant and optimized with MLX, allows for high-performance local LLM inference on standard 16GB MacBooks.
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@hank_aibtc: Family, local LLMs are incredibly impressive! I stumbled upon this gpt-oss-20b-tq3 on Hugging Face, and it's truly captivating! OpenAI's official open-source 20B+ parameter MoE model, optimized by the community using TurboQuant 3-bit quantization + MLX...
The article highlights the gpt-oss-20b-tq3 model, a quantized version of an OpenAI MoE model that runs efficiently on standard 16GB MacBook Airs using TurboQuant and MLX optimizations.
@tom_doerr: Runs 70B LLMs on single 4GB GPU https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm
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@ClementDelangue: Local open-weight AI on a laptop has been improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law! Between May 2024 and May 20…
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I benchmarked 21 local LLMs on a MacBook Air M5 for code quality AND speed
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Local LLM autocomplete + agentic coding on a single 16GB GPU + 64GB RAM
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