Splash 1.0-q8 (prebuilt, 8-bit)

Prebuilt Splash with 8-bit (Q8) weight support. No compiling needed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/npanj/splash/q8/install-q8.sh | sh
splash-q8 serve --model nitinpanj/Qwen3.8-27B-Splash-HQ

• Needs: Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 26.4+, 48 GB unified memory (64 GB recommended).
• Bundled: engine binary, Metal shader library, and its own Python. No Xcode, Homebrew, or pip install.
• Side by side: installs splash-q8 and leaves Homebrew's splash alone.
• Still runs official 4-bit models, e.g. incoai/Qwen3.8-27B-Splash.

Built from commit 5ce51ee on macOS 26.5.2 with Apple clang 21.0.0.

File	SHA-256
splash-1.0-q8-arm64-macos26.tar.gz	11d91459bf163f6d07caf3ae4f6a7fe9ed219978bbe87aa595a56c7a1ba38743
engine splash	8a52b8f5400d8323ae90c194de356be18ee060ac5e4192b02f7a8c801fed0ef4
splash.metallib	c41af7a3bfdd2ac127673da31e5269b95930a94b45a68693e248e5288eb76e25