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[Video] Running Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Qwen 9b Distill on a 16GB MBP

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This is the third video already in the series I started this month. I am trying to share my experiments in running relatively small – but powerful – models on an entry level machine, my 16GB M1 MacBookPro. Last week I tested Google Gemma 4 E4B on the same 16GB M1 MacBookPro, and the week before tha…

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  1. 2026-09-30 07:43 · DEV Community — AI
    [Video] Running Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Qwen 9b Distill on a 16GB MBP

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