Local LLM
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Cramming a 400B Model into 48GB: The Magic Behind LLM in a Flash
An Apple paper from 2023 made it possible to run a 400 billion parameter model on an ordinary MacBook. The core technologies—MoE and quantization—hide an engineering philosophy built around on-demand loading.
March 24, 2026 · 5 min · 857 words · Dream Beast Programming
90 Seconds of Waiting, Gone: How oMLX Buries Ollama on Mac
oMLX is built for Apple Silicon, using the MLX framework, SSD-backed KV cache, and continuous batching to cut TTFT from 90 seconds to 1-3 seconds in long-context scenarios, comprehensively outperforming Ollama.
March 23, 2026 · 6 min · 1133 words · Mengshou Programming
