Train a private SLM on iMessages locally with MLX
romainhuet · x · 2026-08-26
Romain Huet demonstrated using Apple's MLX framework and Codex to train a 1.4M parameter Small Language Model on 778k iMessages. The entire process took about 25 minutes and runs entirely on a local Mac.
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