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by simonw 421 days ago
Yes, Ollama has Qwen 3 and it works great on a Mac. It may be slightly slower than MLX since Ollama hasn't integrated that (Apple Silicon optimized) library yet, but Ollama models still use the Mac's GPU.

https://ollama.com/library/qwen3
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avetiszakharyan 421 days ago
Yes, i did that but its not apple silicon optimized so it was taking forever for 30b models. So its ok, but its not fantastic
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spmurrayzzz 421 days ago
You can just use llama.cpp instead (which is what ollama is using under the hood via bindings). Just need to make sure youre using commit `d3bd719` or newer. I normally use this with nvidia/cuda, but tested on my mbp and havent had any speed issues thus far.

Alternatively, LMStudio has MLX support you can use as well.

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