# Running 80B Qwen on Mac with 4.3GB RAM, 35B on iPhone

A developer shared techniques for running the large Qwen language models on Apple hardware with minimal memory usage. The approach enables an 80-billion-parameter model on a Mac using 4.3GB of RAM, and a 35-billion-parameter variant on an iPhone. This could make powerful on-device AI more accessible, reducing the need for cloud computing.

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### Technology
- [Hacker News](https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:54:15 +0000