Osaurus ships a 6.3 GB agent model for 8GB and 16GB Macs
Raptor 0.5 activates about 1B of 7.9B parameters and targets file, spreadsheet and email tasks on Apple Silicon.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X - Osaurus
Why it matters
Raptor 0.5 tests whether a narrowly trained, small-active model can make useful local agents practical on ordinary Macs, where memory limits matter more than headline parameter counts.

Osaurus co-founder Terence Pae (@tpae) released Raptor 0.5 on September 3rd, a small local agent model designed to remain loaded on Apple Silicon Macs with 8GB or 16GB of unified memory.
https://x.com/OsaurusAI/status/2095563382716002653
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