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19th July 2023 - Link Blog

llama2-mac-gpu.sh (via) Adrien Brault provided this recipe for compiling llama.cpp on macOS with GPU support enabled (“LLAMA_METAL=1 make”) and then downloading and running a GGML build of Llama 2 13B.

Posted 19th July 2023 at 4:04 am

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