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M5 Ultra + Qwen 125B: The Rig That Beats the DGX Spark

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Apple just announced the M5 Ultra Mac Studio — 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, up to 512GB of unified memory, and 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Within the same 24-hour window, Alibaba's Qwen team dropped Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next , a 125-billion-parameter MoE model that activates only 6 billion parameters per…

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  1. 2026-08-26 04:49 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    M5 Ultra + Qwen 125B: The Rig That Beats the DGX Spark

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