Veizik for Apple Silicon — 2026.09.20
The first Veizik build for Apple Silicon runs Qwen2.5 and Qwen3 from supported safetensors checkpoints in a 10 MB native installation.
This page records the state as of 2026-09-20 and is not updated as the catalogue moves. For what runs now, see models.
What this build does
- Direct checkpoint execution. Supported safetensors weights are prepared in memory as they load, with no import step and no converted file.
- Context enforced per model rather than truncated.
- A 10 MB installation covering the runtime, the model cores, and the catalogue, with no environment to create.
- Deterministic generation: identical prompts produce byte-identical output across machines.
Models in this release
| Model | Task | Context | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-0.5B | Language | 32,768 | Preview |
| Qwen2.5-1.5B | Language | 32,768 | Preview |
| Qwen2.5-7B | Language | 32,768 | Preview |
| Qwen3-1.7B | Language | 32,768 | Preview |
- Platform
- macOS on Apple Silicon (arm64)
- Install size
- 10 MB, 14 files
- Verification
- SHA-256 checksum list included with the package
Verify, install, check
$ shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS $ ./install.sh $ veizik doctor
Full steps are in the documentation.
Fixed issues
- Component compatibility is verified on startup, so a mismatched installation fails visibly instead of producing degraded output.
- Every command reaches the command-line interface; an earlier launcher passed arguments through.
- Exit codes match the published contract exactly.
Known issues in 2026.09.20
- Greedy decoding only. Temperature, top-p, and top-k are not implemented in this build.
- No offline calibration pass. Compare outputs with the published test prompts before quality-sensitive deployment.
- Base checkpoints only for the supported models. Other architectures are refused rather than attempted.
- veizik convert reports whether a checkpoint is supported; it writes no converted file, and none is needed to run one.