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Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next On Mac Mini with 64gb Works

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My system: Mac Mini M4 Pro 64 GB V/RAM 1 TB HD There's a new version of OMLX that's in RC status: https://github.com/jundot/omlx/releases/tag/v0.7.0.dev2 Using this, it successfully runs this model: https://huggingface.co/sh0wie/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-REAP-288-MLX-4bit You have to set the memory guard…

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  1. 2026-09-12 11:02 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I am impressed and I owe you one, Qwen 3.8 flash next (vision)!
  2. 2026-09-12 07:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen flash next beats Fable
  3. 2026-09-12 00:01 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next On Mac Mini with 64gb Works

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