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MLX
Everything published that touches MLX — 3 pieces, newest first.
- FastMetal-QAD: Local Video Generation on a Mac, and Why the Biggest Model Is the Wrong Pick FastMetal-QAD makes five-second video generation practical on a 16GB Mac, and the workflow that works inverts two instincts: take the 5B over the 14B, and treat prompt caching as the main…
- Bonsai Image 4B Runs a FLUX-Class Model on an iPhone. The 95% Number Hides Where It Costs You. Bonsai Image 4B's ternary compression is real and honestly documented, but the headline 95% quality figure is an average across three benchmarks that conceals a 12% drop on the exact axis…
- ACE-Step 1.5 Runs a Music Model on Your Mac. Nobody Will Quantize the Audio Decoder, and It Turns Out to Be the Cheapest Part. Every quantization of ACE-Step 1.5 independently refuses to compress the audio decoder, and that decision is correct and nearly free, which means the multi-gigabyte local bundles are large…