Qwen 3.8 on Apple Silicon speeds up nearly 3x using AI-written kernels
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-08-18
Qwen 3.8 27B is now running 193.4% faster (2.94x) on Apple Silicon compared to last Friday. The acceleration was achieved by using AI models like DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT-5.6, and Claude to analyze an open leaderboard and rewrite/optimize the MLX kernels automatically.
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