Can I run TwIL-8B on a Mac with 36 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (17.6 GB) fit in the 24.0 GB a Mac with 36 GB can use, with room for ≈ 38K tokens of context.

Full analysis of TwIL-8B Everything that runs on Mac with 36 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face

hf download webAI-Official/TwIL-8B

Files and context on Mac with 36 GB

Each file of TwIL-8B (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 36 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	17.6 GB	Fits	38K	76K
4-bit (estimate)	4.95 GB	Fits	114K	128K

TwIL-8B on other hardware

NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes
RTX 4090Yes, just
RTX 3090Yes, just
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 3060 12 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 4060Probably, at 4-bit
Mac with 32 GBYes, just
Mac with 36 GBYes
Mac with 64 GBYes
Mac with 128 GBYes

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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.