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Posted by aratahikaru5 22 hours ago

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac(blaizzy.github.io)
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sajithdilshan 20 hours ago|
Has anyone found a model that can run on a normal macbook? I have an M3 Pro with 18GB of memory and whenever I try to run even a basic model the fans goes off and the mac starts to get heated up and becomes so laggy.
mft_ 19 hours ago||
There is a Gemma 4 model with 12B parameters which might be worth trying. e.g. https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-4bit

That said, your computer will still get hot!

Daunk 18 hours ago||
I just run Gemma4 12B MLX via Ollama and it's been doing fantastic work!
kzrdude 19 hours ago|||
If you go small enough it should be no problem. For example Gemma 4 E4B in Q6 or Q4 quantization should run well on your laptop. It shouldn't be too taxing, but would still want to eat 7-9 GB of VRAM or so.

Now that model is mostly useful for writing or chatting.

b3ing 17 hours ago|||
You need more RAM, plus the models take up a lot of space. 32gb min but I’d recommend 48/64gb, you won’t get close to frontier but it’s still fun to play with, images are very good
fl0id 18 hours ago|||
heating up is normal, that cannot be avoided. it should become laggy, but you just have very little RAM (I assume 16 GB?) So most models are too big with other stuff running.
sixtyj 20 hours ago||
Tbh, the only reason to run a model locally is when you want to be completely safe.

From productivity point of view, it doesn’t make sense to have any notebook running a local LLM.

We have one life. We should spend it wisely.

SafeFatNoob 21 hours ago||
so now we have this, https://pypi.org/project/rapid-mlx/, https://mtplx.com, and the oldest I could find at https://omlx.ai.
philips 21 hours ago|
There is also https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-swift-lm which is what https://jan.ai uses.
jarek83 19 hours ago||
Ok, so we're at the point that even design are just one-shot by AI. This is exact look and feel any time I ask it to present a HTML doc about anything.
moostii 18 hours ago|
The webpage isn't the point. The software the webpage refers to is the point.
rvz 21 hours ago||
Looks like my call [0] for more competitors to Ollama has been answered.

We need more like this as well as llama.app, which also has a native mac app.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968898

laughingcurve 21 hours ago||
Agreed. Just based on this not being Ollama, so I will give it a try.
0gs 21 hours ago||
my thing is kind of an Ollama competitor (surrogate?) too. more for prose/text planning, not so much for coding, at least the harness, but i'm sure someone could set it up to do that: github.com/0gsd/enough
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