Perplexity's Lily Beats MLX-LM by 1.35x Running Qwen3.6 on Apple Silicon

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Perplexity open-sources Lily, a Metal-based inference engine tuned for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B that beats MLX-LM by 1.23x prefill and 1.35x decode on M5 Max.

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2026-09-02 20:04 · AlphaSignal
Perplexity's Lily Beats MLX-LM by 1.35x Running Qwen3.6 on Apple Silicon

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