SMRTR AIJul 29, 2026Hacker News

Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

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TurboFieldfare is an open-source Swift and Metal runtime that runs Google's 26-billion-parameter Gemma 4 AI model using only ~2 GB of RAM by streaming necessary data from SSD instead of loading the full 14.3 GB model into memory, making it usable on even base 8 GB Apple Silicon Macs.

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