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Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 26+ come with a small LLM built in. No download, no API key, and nothing leaves your Mac. Why I built it I was making a tool that writes API docs from code, and I didn't wa

https://preview.redd.it/nulsv53o8vqh1.png?width=4500&format=png&auto=webp&s=74765dbd409f4c221640f9f6000a685f6fdbb242 Spent weekend benchmarking the Splash engine (by Incoai) and extending its architec

Apple is considering offering an AI server built around 'M8' series chips and has discussed incorporating Nvidia networking hardware, The Information reports. The system would be sold to outside custo

LTX Desktop v1.1.0 just shipped with some big updates. Apple Silicon Macs can generate video locally now, there's a built-in LoRA/IC-LoRA library you can browse and apply from inside the app with per-

A seasoned developer seeking advice on selecting an Apple product to locally host large language models in the 27-36 billion parameter range, discussing the trade-offs and specifications of different

Apple has removed its 256GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio from sale, limiting the machine to 96GB of unified memory , following the removal of the 512GB configuration in March . The removal is likely due to a g

This post benchmarks three Qwen3.6 model variants against gpt-oss:120b when running on Apple Silicon hardware, evaluating their performance characteristics and practical usability. It documents both t

Ollama consistently fails to run any model on Apple M5 hardware running macOS 26, with the Metal backend failing to initialize and the runner process terminating with a 500 Internal Server Error. The

I was unable to retrieve the specific Reddit thread or locate reliable sourced details about Apple's head of cloud making a statement that open source models will address 90% of use cases. The sear...

I built Image Studio, a local web app for Qwen-Image 2.1 on Apple Silicon. I had the model running on my Mac, but the only way to use it was the ComfyUI graph, and chaining edits meant wiring loaders,

It seems to use a 96-bit LPDDR5X memory bus, instead of the previous 64-bit wide busses. Considering it's on 2nm, that's expensive silicon. That should result in around 115 GB/s memory bandwidth. A20

A few weeks ago, I saw this post where the author trained a SIREN MLP to implicitly memorize Bad Apple as a coordinate function: (t, y, x) to pixel. That got me curious about a slightly different form

Its a custom Swift/Metal inference engine that runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on M-series Macs with very low RAM. It uses ~2GB instead of ~14 GB. The result is reportedly 5–6 tok/s on an 8 GB M2 MacBook Air

At Bitwize, we've been building Logue, a native macOS app for AI meeting notes and writing, and we just open-sourced it (MIT). We're sharing it here because the whole point is that it runs 100% on-dev

I am planning to buy hardware to run local models. I'm not sure what kind of hardware is best and what will I be able to run. I'm torn between getting a used M1 Max 64gb Macbook for €1500, M3 Max 128g

I ran a few benchmarks on my MacBook Pro M5 Max with oMLX: Running Qwen3.8-27B with thinking off has a big effect on output quality. Running it with thinking on xhigh burns 5.5x the tokens and runs 6x

'A 12-core GPU, also with two more cores than before, now includes Neural Accelerators in each core for the first time on Mac mini, resulting in up to 4x faster AI performance and 2x faster graphics t

mlx-dspark is an MLX port of DeepSeek's DSpark speculative-decoding drafters (the DeepSpec release), plus z-lab's DFlash, with one lossless verify loop. v0.10.0 adds Qwen3.8-27B via RadixArk's drafter

Another new model dropped in the course of this week that is well deployable on consumer hardware: Nex N2.5 Mini I went with the recommended settings for the best generation quality and ran a few benc

At the moment MLX (and Llama.cpp for Macs) run 16bit activations everywhere. Despite this, the M5 generation silicon actually does support INT8 activations - it actually allows w4a8 d_type. It's just

https://huggingface.co/bartowski/LensVLM-9B-GGUF LensVLM-9B LensVLM is a 9B Vision Language Model (VLM) that scans compressed images of text, then selectively expands only the relevant pages to their

I've been experimenting with running larger models locally with Ollama, mainly because I'm interested in using them for agentic coding. I kept seeing benchmarks expressed as something like: 40 tokens/

I believe I may currently hold the record for memory constrained inference for Qwen3.8–Flash-Next on Apple Silicon — needing only about 21GB of allocations. Introducing Cherenkov, an inference engine

Apple Foundation Model 3 through Private Cloud Compute is directly available in macOS 27.2 through familiar AI clients. For Mac users running local models such as Qwen 3.x or Gemma 4, AFM 3 PCC is a c

Meet Inco Splash, open-source inference engine, built around the model and around Apple silicon. Up to 3× the decode speed of Ollama, 2× oMLX, and almost 4× when an agent fans out into sub-agents. Req

We have SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, OSWorld, BrowseComp, etc. But I haven’t seen a good apples-to-apples benchmark for platforms like OpenAI Agents, Anthropic’s agent stack, AWS AgentCore, Google’s age

Hey experts! I genuinely have this question and would love a general consensus from people actually using these models. LLMs have advanced a lot in benchmarks and in practical usage. Even GPT-4o and G

This may be somewhat specific to Qwen3.8 27b and the Apple M5 series, perhaps, but enough of us are running this combo that it's worth tossing out there. GGUF models with MTP have been the fastest way

I used a famous Simon Willison's pelican riding a bicycle prompt on the biggest local LLMs that can run on 128GB Apple Silicon. U used quantizations by Unsloth. Qwen3.8 Flash-Next gives a lot of detai

Given OpenRouter.ai was snapped up by Stripe, who do we think would go after the 'GitHib' of AI models? It is a big chunk of change they are looking ($13B). Apple may be a contender to give them a rea

It's a small experiment of mine to check thinking effort on Qwen and I do have to say xhigh does overthink but I'm not sure if it's bad because the result is rather amazing. Although the prompt was ve

TL;DR: The result looks TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE — that's exactly why I'm posting it. I ran Ox alpha on the entire SWE-bench Verified-Mini set with the official mini-swe-agent scaffold — the same agent use

Everything runs through WebGPU, in-browser or in electron/tauri apps. It's fully portable and supports either Nvidia and Apple Silicon (Metal). The actual kernels are optimized for the specific hardwa

Disclosure: I'm the developer. The app is called Citenook. I wanted to ask questions across a few hundred PDFs and notes with Ollama, but every setup I tried either needed a lot of glue code or gave a

Ok, so the Mac M5 Ultra (256GB) hit the market, but the only publicly available benchmarks material are flashy YouTube 'clown influencers' videos. We need serious numbers to evaluate whether Apple’s s

Hello Everyone! Good news for anyone who can compile code on apple, you can now experience using a AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 on a MacBook Pro or Mac mini, Mac Studio or any OSX variant as long as it has

Cosmos3 INT4 T2I + I2V on Apple Silicon — code, weights and a Grok comparison GitHub - https://github.com/gtrg55/cosmos3-quant-mlx-cuda HF weights - https://huggingface.co/JuliaML/Cosmos3-Super-Text2I

We are considering to buy computer, server to run decent model on premises. I would like to run big open source model with more that 70b parameters roughly. I read the people used to run on Apple Stud

Hey guys, Inco AI shipped DFlash 2 a few days ago with a drafter for Qwen 3.8 27B and a llama.cpp PR. I built the PR and ran it against plain decoding, MTP, the n-gram lookup drafters, and my July DFl

Spec-dec has been a thing for a while, in fact, it's wasn't an idea that was born for LLM inference. E.g. Uber's https://github.com/uber/submitqueue applied it to a merge queue. Apple & GDM had been r

TL;DR: I spent 9 days developing a new quantization method for MLX models and measured 18 variants against each other on a single M5 Max MacBook Pro (128 GB). The result is the best-measuring MLX quan

An iOS application that enables large language models to run directly on-device using llama.cpp technology, allowing users to integrate their own Ollama instances for processing Apple HealthKit data t

This r/ollama community guide provides a practical breakdown of which AI language models (and combinations of models) can realistically fit within the unified memory constraints of common Apple Silico

The Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48GB unified memory is a popular choice in the local AI community for running large language models via Ollama, as its Apple Silicon architecture makes all 48GB of RAM dire...

I've made a few posts recently, just talking about the hardware I've got and the model I use. Pair of P100s, Unsloth Qwen3.6 35b A3B UD Q4 K XL. There's been a ton of talk of model and hardware specif

Currently contemplating adding either M5 Ultra 256GB or dual DGX Spark in addition to existing 5090. I have been researching for past few days and have zeroed in on dual sparks because higher throughp