Show HN: Run 500B+ Parameter LLMs Locally on a Mac Mini
8 points by fatihturker
by pcf
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Hi @fatihturker – exciting project if it works!
I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max w/64 GB RAM, and a Mac Studio M3 Ultra w/96 GB RAM. What do you think is possible to run on these? Just curious before I really try it out.
by deflator
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Fascinating. I don't understand the technical terms, but running a big coding agent locally is a dream of mine, so I thank you for your efforts!
by ryanholtdev
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Running a Mac Mini M4 as a home server for a bunch of automation scripts right now. The mmap-based layer streaming is the part I'm most curious about -- how does latency look when you're streaming layers from disk mid-inference? I'd expect throughput to degrade sharply once you exceed unified memory, but maybe the Top-K sparsity masks enough of the weight accesses that it's not as bad as sequential streaming would be. What's the actual tokens/sec at 140B scale on the base Mac Mini config?
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