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The author optimized the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model to run on a 64GB Mac using expert streaming and other techniques, achieving ~27 tok/s by publishing a checkpoint and a llama.cpp fork.
The article details custom optimizations for running the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next AI model on Mac M1 Max hardware, including SSD streaming, custom quantizations, and a sparse attention mechanism to improve performance.
Qwen3.8-27B uncensored version released, optimized for Mac M chips, supports local deployment, retains multimodal capabilities and safety research features, with simplified installation steps.
A developer ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model to run on Apple Silicon Macs by replacing CUDA-only dependencies with PyTorch MPS equivalents, enabling offline 3D mesh generation without requiring NVIDIA GPUs.