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MLX and RDMA enable LLM inference on Mac Studio
Researchers at Apple have demonstrated the capability to run advanced large language models locally and across multiple Mac Studio systems using MLX and RDMA over Thunderbolt. Tests on models like Muse Spark Open (816B parameters), Mistral Medium 3.5, and Qwen 3.8 across M3 Ultra and M5 Ultra hardware showed performance improvements due to M5 Neural Accelerators and distributed parallelization techniques, including pipeline and tensor parallelism.
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