Run Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B on Mac
Uncensored Mixtral 8x7B finetune excelling at coding tasks
Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B runs 100% private on Mac inside Private LLM — no internet connection required, no data sent to any server.
Model on Hugging Face
Specifications
- Parameters
- 56B
- Context window
- 33K tokens
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Quantization
- OmniQuant 4-bit
- Family
- Mixtral 8x7B
What Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B is good at
Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B is an uncensored adaptation of the Mixtral 8x7B model, fine-tuned after its training data was filtered to remove safety alignment and bias, making it highly compliant with all requests, including unethical ones. It has a 32,768-token context window (trained at 16k tokens) and was tuned using coding-heavy data, so it is particularly capable at programming tasks. The training used qLoRA on four A100 GPUs over three days.
Which of your devices can run it
Mac
How to run Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B in Private LLM
- Download Private LLM from the App Store.
- Open the in-app model library and choose Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B.
- Download the model once, then chat fully offline.
Variants & related models
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Dolphin 2.6 Phi 2
Uncensored conversation, roleplay, and agent tasks from a Phi 2 base
Frequently asked questions
Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B is too large for current iPhones. It runs on Mac with enough unified memory inside Private LLM, fully offline.
Yes. Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B runs on Macs with enough unified memory, such as Mac (Apple Silicon, 192GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 128GB), Mac Studio / Pro (Apple Silicon, 96GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 64GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 48GB), MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 36GB), Mac (Apple Silicon, 32GB), fully on-device in Private LLM.
Yes. Once downloaded in Private LLM, Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B runs 100% on-device — no internet connection, and nothing is sent to any server.
Private LLM is a one-time purchase with no subscription and no per-message cost. The models themselves are open source — once downloaded, they run offline with nothing to pay per use.
Why run Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B in Private LLM
Private LLM has run local AI on iPhone, iPad, and Mac since 2023, well before Apple Intelligence, LM Studio, Ollama, etc. existed. Inference happens on your device, so your Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B conversations never reach a server. The part most apps gloss over is quantization, and that is exactly where on-device quality is won or lost. Most llama.cpp and MLX wrappers ship the same off-the-shelf 4-bit RTN weights. Private LLM ships GPTQ and OmniQuant quantization, tuned per model, and our 3-bit OmniQuant models match or beat those 4-bit RTN builds on the same Apple Silicon. Run the same model both ways and you feel it in the first reply. See how our quantization works.
Specifications and summary come from Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B's Hugging Face model card, released under the Apache 2.0 license. Private LLM ships its own quantized models, built with OmniQuant quantization tuned per model, and isn't affiliated with the model's authors.