Mar 20, 2026 — 8 min — Platform & AI
Fine-Tuning GPT-OSS 20B on a 64GB MacBook Pro
A practical MLX-first recipe for experimenting with openai/gpt-oss-20b on a 64GB Apple Silicon Mac without confusing local LoRA work for CUDA-scale training.
Outcome: Defined a local 64GB MacBook Pro fine-tuning path for GPT-OSS 20B that prioritizes Harmony formatting, MLX quantized LoRA, small evals, and a clear fallback to NVIDIA when scale is required.