TurboFieldfare
Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook
TurboFieldfare is a custom Swift and Metal runtime for running the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B model on Apple Silicon Macs with limited memory. Instead of loading the entire model, it keeps the shared core and KV cache in RAM while streaming only the routed experts required for each token from SSD. This approach reduces active memory use to roughly 2 GB while the installed model occupies about 14.3 GB of storage. The project includes a native Mac application, command-line tools, a...