Atomic Chat's TurboQuant headline did not survive a chat-generation benchmark on my M3
Atomic Chat advertises TurboQuant as 8x faster inference and 6x less memory. I tested the local MLX TurboQuant KV path on a 16 GB M3. It saved about 3-5% total peak memory and did not speed up generation — a useful reminder that KV-cache microbenchmarks do not automatically become whole-chat product claims.
Jun 18, 2026