Can I run d1-3B on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (6.25 GB) fit in the 10.7 GB a Mac with 16 GB can use, with room for ≈ 32K tokens of context.

Full analysis of d1-3B Everything that runs on Mac with 16 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of d1-3B (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

File	Size	On Mac with 16 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	6.25 GB	Fits	32K	32K
BF16LiquidAI/d1-3B-GGUF	5.40 GB	Fits	32K	32K
F16LiquidAI/d1-3B-GGUF	5.40 GB	Fits	32K	32K
Q8_0LiquidAI/d1-3B-GGUF	2.87 GB	Fits	32K	32K
Q4_K_MLiquidAI/d1-3B-GGUF	1.67 GB	Fits	32K	32K

d1-3B on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 16 GB

Assumes 67% of the Mac's memory is usable (macOS's default limit for the GPU; it can be raised) and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.