Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac
and a 35B on an iPhone. 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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