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How’s it looking for a six year old MacBook?

Not there yet?

Does this still use the gpu?

I believe lambda.cpp has been designed for at least an M1 - no idea if there are options for running LLaMA on older hardware.

It doesn't use CoreML so it should work on Intel machines at some speed.

If it used the GPU/ANE and was a true large language model then it would only work on M1 systems because they're unified memory (which nothing except an A100 can match.)

>which nothing except an A100 can match

LLaMA's GPT-3 175B level model, LLaMA-13B, only requires 8GB of VRAM (and no RAM) to run using pre-quantized 4bit weights. So it's hardly a job for an A100.

Even the largest model, LLaMA-65B, is only 30GB and inference can be split between two graphics cards with almost no effect on performance.

Is there a place to get the prequant'ed model weights?

I’m wonder how hard it would be to port to OpenXLA which was recently released, that would let you target many CPUs, GPUs, and even TPUs.

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