Run Qwen3.6 27B 2x Faster on M5 Max — Native MTP on Apple Silicon

A walkthrough demonstrating how to use MTP LX (Multi-Token Prediction for Apple MLX) to achieve roughly 2x faster local LLM inference on Apple Silicon machines. The tutorial covers the mechanics of multi-token prediction and speculative decoding, explains why standard autoregressive inference underutilizes GPU compute, and shows a practical comparison running Qwen3.6 27B dense model with and without MTP enabled. Results show token generation jumping from ~17 tokens/sec to ~48 tokens/sec, with first-token latency dropping from 0.59s to 0.25s. Installation is via Homebrew and the tool includes a web UI and integration with coding agents like Pyi.