@songjunkr: Sharing my local LLM setup for personal use: Equipment: MacStudio M2 Ultra 64gb Model on load - SuperQwen3.6 35b mlx 4b…
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A user shared their personal local LLM stack running on a MacStudio M2 Ultra 64 GB, combining SuperQwen3.6-35b-mlx-4bit, Ernie Image Turbo, and multiple helper models for coding and chat.
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Sharing my local LLM setup for personal use: Equipment: MacStudio M2 Ultra 64gb Model on load - SuperQwen3.6 35b mlx 4bit (90tok/s) - Ernie Image Turbo (image generation model) Hermes Agent + MLX-LM + GPT Codex (coding), Gemini (conversation, image)
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