Can I run MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes, with a GGUF version

The published weights are too big, but the Q8_0 file from bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF (9.55 GB) fits, with room for ≈ 32K tokens of context.

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF:Q8_0

Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B (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.

MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B 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.