Running DeepSeek-V3 on M4 Mac Mini AI Cluster 671B... MoE model distributed across 8 M4 Pro 64GB Mac Minis. Apple Silicon with unified memory is a great fit for MoE.show more

M4 Mac Mini AI Cluster Uses EXO Labs with... Thunderbolt 5 interconnect (80Gbps) to run LLMs distributed across 4 M4 Pro Mac Minis. The cluster is small (iPhone for reference). It’s running Nemotron 70B at 8 tok/sec and scales to Llama 405B (benchmarks soon).show more

AGI at home Running DeepSeek R1 across my 7... M4 Pro Mac Minis and 1 M4 Max MacBook Pro. Total unified memory = 496GB. Uses EXO Labs distributed inference with 4-bit quantization. Next goal is fp8 (requires >700GB)show more

m4 mac mini cluster with 5 nodes running exo

Distributed training on M4 Mac Mini cluster We implemented... Google DeepMind DiLoCo on Apple Silicon to train large models with 100-1000x less bandwidth compared to DDP baseline. AI is entering a new era where a distributed network of consumer devices can train large models.show more

Running DeepSeek R1 on my desk Uses EXO Labs... with Thunderbolt 5 interconnect (80Gbps) to run the full (671B, 8-bit) DeepSeek R1 distributed across 2 M3 Ultra 512GB Mac Studios (1TB total Unified Memory). Runs at 11 tok/sec. Theoretical max is ~20 tok/sec.show more

The tiny new Mac Mini - M4 and M4... Pro chips - 5 x 5 inch cube footprint - Headphone jack on the front - Starting at $599 with 16GB Memoryshow more

The new M4 Mac Mini is sooo mini!!

Got continuous batching working with SSMs in mlx-lm. Here's... four OpenCode agents simultaneously running Nvidia's Nemotron Nano on 64GB M4 Max. This is a nice model for smaller machines since it's MoE + hybrid attention (small cache).show more

M4 Mac Mini AI cluster running Llama 3.3 70B... Preliminary results show Gigabit ethernet switch (4 tok/sec) is slower than Thunderbolt-5 with EXO Labs Benchmarks including Thunderbolt-5 coming soonTM.show more

Tested the new MacBook Pro M4 Pro vs. the... Mac mini M1 in LM Studio, running Llama 3.2 3B 4-bit MLX. Results: M1 (8-Core) ------> 25 tok/sec M4 Pro (14-Core) -> 104 tok/sec 🤯 – 4x faster!show more

MARCUS CHEN STACKED 30 MAC MINIS INTO AN AI... SERVER FARM. ONE $599 MAC MINI REPLACES YOUR $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE BILL WITH $3 IN ELECTRICITY two months ago a developer posted his claude code bill on reddit. $170 in 10 days. someone replied "i bought a mac mini m4. haven't paid anthropic since." apple stores ran out of mac minis the same week the m4 chip has 120 gb/s memory bandwidth and unified memory architecture. cpu and gpu share one pool so the model loads once and both read from it. a $599 mac mini runs ai faster than a $1,500 windows pc with a discrete gpu since january 2026 ollama supports the anthropic messages api format. claude code connects directly to your local mac mini with one environment variable. same interface, zero api costs, $0 per request a heavy developer pays $459 a month across claude code max, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot. that's $5,508 a year. the mac mini pays off in 3 months and runs on $3 in electricity after that uber rolled out claude code to 5,000 engineers and burned through their $3.4 billion 2026 ai budget in 4 months. the people who own the hardware in 2026 are going to look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article belowshow more

HUI LUI BOUGHT 100 MAC MINIS TO BUILD A... PRIVATE AI SERVER FARM. ONE $599 BOX ALONE KILLS A $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE BILL FOR $3 IN ELECTRICITY a developer posted his $170 claude code bill from 10 days on reddit. someone replied "i bought a mac mini m4. haven't paid anthropic since" the m4 chip has 120 gb/s memory bandwidth and unified memory. a $599 mac mini runs ai faster than a $1,500 windows pc with a discrete gpu ollama now supports the anthropic messages api. claude code connects to your local mac mini with one environment variable. zero api costs, same interface a heavy developer pays $459 a month across claude code, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot. the mac mini pays off in 3 months and runs on $3 after that uber rolled out claude code to 5,000 engineers and burned $3.4 billion in 4 months. the people who own the hardware in 2026 will look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article belowshow more

Success! 🍎🤖 I can now control Unitree robots on... a Mac Mini M4 running macOS with a simple tweak! The unitree_sdk2_python ( thread implementation isn’t essential—getting the DDS subscriber and publisher to work is enough. I replaced Unitree’s Linux thread logic with a simple Python while loop for sensor reading and robot control. Here’s a video of me controlling a Go2 robot on macOS (M4 Mac Mini) using a Python script for low-level control and sensor reading.show more

Watch Max, our VP of Customer Success, transform his... workspace with Apple Mac mini — with it's compact design and powerful M4 chip, his ordinary desk is now a creative hub.💡How are you stepping up your workspace for 2025? #smallbusinesssaturday #shopsmallsaturdayshow more

Crimson Desert will take full advantage of Apple silicon,... including support for MetalFX Upscaling, hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading on the M3 and M4-family of chips, Spatial Audio, and HDR. Coming to Mac late 2025. #CrimsonDesert #Apple #WWDCshow more

How much faster is the new MacBook Pro for... AI inference? M4 Max is 27% faster with 72 tok/sec compared to 56 tok/sec of the M3 Max with MLX running Gemma 2 9B (4bit). The 27% speedup is the same with Llama-3.2-1b, Llama-3.2-3b and others. Next up: EXO Labs M4 cluster.show more

NVIDIA just dropped Nemotron-3-Nano:4b — a tiny 2.8GB model.... Guess whose hardware runs it the fastest? - RTX 4090: 226 tok/s - RTX 3090: 187 tok/s - Mac Studio M2 Ultra: 86 tok/s - Mac Mini M4: 25 tok/s Home court advantage is real. Also trying a new layout with live performance charts. Lmk what you think!show more

DeepSeek R1 Qwen 7B 4bit M2 Ultra vs M4... Max on Apple MLX 🤫 Let them think... (video 4x in center part) M2 Ultra: 114.9 tokens per sec M4 Max (14"): 88.3 tokens per secshow more