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incoai/splash

A local inference engine for Apple silicon, built around the model.

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How fast incoai/splash is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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    • Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about incoai/splash, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 291 post

      • Tried Apex-35B locally on an M4 Pro 48 GB. No MLX build exists yet, and you don't need one (yet!): Splash ( loads bartowski's Q4_K_M GGUF directly and attaches the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B DFlash2 draft…

        Read full on X, posted by @dima6312

        @dima6312 · x.com

    2. 18 days earlier
    3. Oct 111 post

      • 1/5 I spent a week running a local agent (Hermes) on a MacBook Pro M3 Max with 48 GB, comparing 7 engines on real sessions and on long-chat tests (20K and ~105K). Winner: Splash + Qwen3.8 27B + the…

        Read full on X, posted by @rusanasol

        @rusanasol · x.com

    4. Oct 72 posts

      • The demo runs @UnslothAI's Qwen3.8-27B GGUF. To try it: brew install incoai/tap/splash splash serve --model unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-IQ3_XXS --language-only --max-cache-disk 16G Then run splash…

        Read full on X, posted by @inco_ai

        @inco_ai · x.com

      • Claude Code 可以不连 Anthropic。 splash 把大模型装进 Mac 本地跑，brew 一条命令，接进 Claude Code。 · 27B 每秒 74 token，llama.cpp 的 4.5 倍，36G 内存能跑 · 代码数据不出门，订阅费省了 开源 19 天 1200 star。 #本地大模型 #Splash #Qwen #开源

        Read full on X, posted by @ataosky

        @ataosky · x.com

    5. Oct 31 post

      • Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a 2021 M1 Max: 44 tok/s, and still 35 tok/s with 400K tokens in the context

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LocalLLM

    6. Oct 11 post

      • Running 95.5 GiB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 41–52 tok/s on a 64GB Mac (1.76x faster than llama.cpp): Slipstream release, 130k context scaling, + Swift variant

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LocalLLaMA

    7. Sep 262 posts

      • Splash 1.1.0 released, GGUF quants support, MLX import and more

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LocalLLaMA

      • Splash on M1, part 2: 35B-A3B at 144 tok/s on a 2021 M1 Max, plus a head-to-head with oMLX and MTPLX (speed, temperature, power, memory)

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LocalLLM

    8. Sep 251 post

      • Splash on a 40-core M5 Max: +20% decode by tuning the kernels for your own chip

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LocalLLaMA

    9. Sep 241 post

      • You can now run Qwen3.8-27B on a 2021 M1 Max at 39 tok/s: I ported Splash (M3+ only) and wrote custom Metal kernels

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LocalLLM

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