Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 35B Model Runs Locally on Apple M5 Max MacBooks with Cloud-Comparable Performance

Developers are running Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 35B model locally on Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB unified memory, achieving inference quality comparable to cloud-based models like Claude and GPT-4. The development challenges traditional cloud AI business models by demonstrating capable local inference on consumer hardware.