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Using an iPhone as a second GPU speeds up local AI models
Original: I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster
A developer reports hooking up an iPhone to a MacBook as an extra compute device, accelerating prefill times for the Qwen 3.8 27B AI model by 29-44%. The trick taps the phone's Apple Silicon GPU alongside the laptop's own, drawing interest from people running large language models locally on consumer hardware.
Why now: Running large AI models locally is a hot topic, and squeezing extra performance from existing Apple devices is a novel, practical hack.
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