MiniMax 3.1 Flash runs locally on MLX as quant releases become the norm
pcuenq · x · 2026-10-23
Hugging Face's pcuenq demoed MiniMax 3.1 Flash running locally with MLX. He highlights a trend: more models ship as high-quality quants that are fast with negligible precision loss — and published benchmark scores now refer to the actual quantized weights. Local AI, he argues, is truly driving innovation.
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