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A developer reproduced the setup on a Mac M2 Max using a 0.6B draft model paired with an 8B target model, and the result was actually slower because the draft model was only about 3.5x faster.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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7/16/2026
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Valid until: 10/14/2026(expired)
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