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Just made LocalLM Lab 2.2 official and tested with Nematron3.5 and LFM2.5

And boy, LFM2.5 is fast! Screenshot of the LocalLM Lab benchmark summary of Qwen3-14B-4bit model vs (screenshot of previous run) LFM2.5-8B-A1B-MLX-8bit. The prompt requires at least one tool call to Github's MCP server. Note that this is run on my 24GB M5 MacBook Air. From a quality perspective, Qw…

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  1. 2026-10-24 17:26 · r/LocalLLM
    Just made LocalLM Lab 2.2 official and tested with Nematron3.5 and LFM2.5

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