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Your Mac can run AI right now.
Qwen3 4B at about 22 tok/s, about reading speed. Quick everyday chat and summaries.
First time? Install Ollama, then paste that into a terminal.
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Everything your Mac can run
With Ollama, at its default 4-bit size. Speeds are estimates from memory bandwidth, usually within about a third of real results.
- Qwen3 4BQuick everyday chat and summaries~22 tok/sUsableqwen3:4b
- Qwen3 8BA solid all-rounder for chat and writing~11 tok/sUsableqwen3:8b
- Gemma 3 12BReads images as well as text~7 tok/sSlowgemma3:12b
- Qwen3 14BNoticeably smarter at reasoning and code~6 tok/sSlowqwen3:14b
- gpt-oss 20BOpenAI's open model. Fast, strong reasoningneeds 16 GBToo biggpt-oss:20b
- Gemma 3 27BGoogle's best open model for its sizeneeds 19 GBToo biggemma3:27b
- Qwen3 30B-A3B30B smarts at small-model speedneeds 21 GBToo bigqwen3:30b
- Qwen3 32BStrong coding and long answersneeds 22 GBToo bigqwen3:32b
- Llama 3.3 70BClose to the big cloud modelsneeds 45 GBToo bigllama3.3:70b
- gpt-oss 120BOpenAI's largest open modelneeds 67 GBToo biggpt-oss:120b
- Qwen3 235B-A22BAlibaba's flagship open model, for multi-GPU rigsneeds 144 GBToo bigqwen3:235b
- DeepSeek R1 671BThe full DeepSeek R1, for the biggest rigsneeds 406 GBToo bigdeepseek-r1:671b
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