Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B now runs up to ~3.3x faster on Mac with mlx-dspark
Summary
A developer reports running Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B up to ~3.3x faster on Apple Silicon using speculative decoding in mlx-dspark, with byte-identical output and no quality tradeoff.
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