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can it run

Can the MacBook Pro M5 Max (128GB) run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 32B?

YES

Comfortably. 128GB of memory against a 25GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

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Specs

model file20GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory25GB working set
this machine128GB unified
paramsdistill 32B
licensemit
price$4999

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull deepseek-r1:32b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 (GB300) — this model on the biggest machine

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