Run Yi 34B Chat on Mac
Multilingual English-Chinese chat and translation using Yi 34B
Yi 34B Chat runs 100% private on Mac inside Private LLM — no internet connection required, no data sent to any server.
Model on Hugging Face
Specifications
- Parameters
- 34.4B
- Context window
- 4K tokens
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Quantization
- OmniQuant 4-bit
- Family
- Yi 34B
What Yi 34B Chat is good at
Trained on a 3 trillion token multilingual corpus, Yi 34B Chat is a bilingual model fluent in English and Chinese, capable of translation and cross-language conversation. It contains 34.4 billion parameters and processes up to 4096 tokens of context. The model ranked second on the AlpacaEval leaderboard behind GPT-4 Turbo, outperforming many other open-source models. It is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license for personal, academic, and commercial use.
Which of your devices can run it
Mac
How to run Yi 34B Chat in Private LLM
- Download Private LLM from the App Store.
- Open the in-app model library and choose Yi 34B Chat.
- Download the model once, then chat fully offline.
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Frequently asked questions
Yi 34B Chat is too large for current iPhones. It runs on Mac with enough unified memory inside Private LLM, fully offline.
Yes. Yi 34B Chat 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), MacBook Air (M4, 24GB), fully on-device in Private LLM.
Yes. Once downloaded in Private LLM, Yi 34B Chat 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 Yi 34B Chat 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 Yi 34B Chat 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 Yi 34B Chat'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.