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		admiralrohan 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly If you are running local LLMs what is the hardware requirement in my machine? Don't see any mention of that.

ggerganov 3 months ago [–]

Gemma 3n (the model used by this app) would run on any Apple Silicon device (even with 8GB RAM).

chilipepperhott 3 months ago | [–]

Yup, but you're automatically giving up a ton of RAM that could be better used for Slack.

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