Quantized Qwen 3.8 Flash Next may be best local model for 64GB Macs
antirez · x · 2026-08-30
antirez suggests that the 2-bit quantized Qwen 3.8 Flash Next could be the optimal DwarfStar candidate for local inference on a 64GB MacBook, given that 51B n-grams can reside on the SSD.
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