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Consultant — Private Chat — Apple 16 GB
Qwen3-4B is a compact local-chat reference for 16 GB unified-memory Macs.
Open WebUI
Open tool profile →Ollama
Open runtime profile →Qwen3-4B
Open model profile →Fully local chat when only local model providers are enabled
Apache-2.0
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