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leonickson1/Swiftlet

Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen Mixture-of-Experts models locally on Apple devices by streaming expert weights from storage, enabling 35B and 80B models to run with low RAM, including on iPhone.

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How fast leonickson1/Swiftlet is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 7 – Nov 6, 2026

Stars +45 in 61 days

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Forks +20 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 12 in 61 days

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Mon, Oct 26, 2026+1+00
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+1+00
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+0+00
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Fri, Oct 30, 2026+1+00
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    Where people are talking about leonickson1/Swiftlet, and every badge it has earned
    1. Aug 111 post
      • Top new releases this week (Aug 3 – Aug 9): 1/ FFmpeg 9.0. Codename Lei, four months after 8.1. Animated WebP decoding, an ONNX Runtime backend for the DNN filters, LCEVC muxing in MP4 and a Dolby…

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    2. Aug 91 post
      • 大模型本地运行,非得把全部权重塞进内存吗?Swiftlet 的解法很工程化。 它只常驻稠密权重,把 MoE 专家打包为定长 qpack,按路由用 pread 从 SSD 读取,再以 LFU 加近因策略维护有界缓存;前向走 Metal,DeltaNet 让多数层无需持续增长的 KV cache。35B/80B 因而能低内存运行在 Apple…

        Read full on X, posted by @vintcessun

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    3. Aug 62 posts
      • GitHub - leonickson1/Swiftlet: Run 35B and 80B Qwen models on ordinary Apple devices, including iPhones.

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      • 你敢信,在普通 Apple 设备上流式运行 35B/80B 规模的 Qwen MoE 混合模型:只驻留小规模稠密核心,路由专家按需从 SSD 流式取回,峰值内存压到 2.6GB/4.3GB。

        Read full on X, posted by @QingQ77

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    4. Aug 51 post
      • 80B Qwen, peak RAM 只要 4.3 GB. Swiftlet 用 Metal 把 MoE expert 從 SSD stream 進來, 不是整包塞記憶體... M5 大約 4.5–5 tok/s. iPhone 也能跑 35B.

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    5. Aug 44 posts
      • SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros (

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      • Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

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      • Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

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    6. Aug 31 post
      • Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

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