Perplexity open-sources Lily, a minimal Metal inference server for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on M5 Macs
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-09-03
Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas announced pplx-garden/lily, an open-source Metal inference server built for one checkpoint: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B converted to MLX affine 4-bit weights.
- Exposes a minimal OpenAI-compatible chat completions API; always decodes greedily
- Requires Apple GPU family 10+ (M5 or newer), macOS 26+, Rust 1.92
- Metal kernels compile from source at runtime, no offline shader build
- Performance reports include measurement contracts and repro steps; architecture and quantization layout are validated at load time
Related event: Perplexity Open-Sources Lily, a Local Inference Engine for Apple Silicon(8 posts)→
More from Infra
- ClickHouse aggregates 100B rows in 0.4s with parallel replicas auto-scaling — Abhishekcur · 2026-10-18
- Auction-based LLM routing paper finds fixed token pricing wastes 10%-71% in costs — _onionesque · 2026-10-18
- Running Ling 3.1 Flash (560B MoE, 25B Active) Across 4 DGX Sparks via llama.cpp RPC — BerryBlush_Rogers691 · 2026-10-18
- SGLang Summit sponsors jump from 11 to 36 in one week — ying11231 · 2026-10-18
- Oracle CDS hits record 300bps, called first AI trade domino after Barclays sell downgrade — arthurcolle · 2026-10-18
- Agent Coding Workflow Would Cost ~$40k/Month on API Pricing, Dev Reveals — ChrisRackauckas · 2026-10-18