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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a 96GB Mac Studio (here's my memory math, tell me where it's wrong)

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Mac Studio, 96GB unified memory ( M3 Ultra ). I want the largest usable Qwen3.8-Flash-Next setup, and I'd rather not burn 100GB of bandwidth on the wrong download. Here's my math. Please tell me which parts are wrong. What makes this model weird 177B params total: a 125B MoE trunk + a 51B n-gram em…

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    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a 96GB Mac Studio (here's my memory math, tell me where it's wrong)

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