Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
By carloslfu · 2026-09-01 · 55 points · 49 comments
https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream
I built slotstream, a way to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit on a low-memory mac starting from 16GB, a 125B parameter model that would need 100GB+ memory/RAM, thanks to expert-offloading/ssd-streaming. Easy to install/update, and mac-native using MLX and Swift. It sh…
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