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Qwen model reportedly runs on iPhone Neural Engine at 15-70 tokens per second

Original: Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)

A demonstration claims a 27-billion-parameter Qwen large language model is running on an Apple iPhone's Neural Engine, generating text at 15-70 tokens per second using extreme quantization (1.5 bits per weight). If accurate, it would put a large AI model entirely on a phone without cloud access. The claim has drawn attention from people tracking on-device AI, though the hardware details could not be independently verified.

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