The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
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The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview· Ollama Blog
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.
Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
This is why we need open benchmarks for local AI.Otherwise it turns into tribalism and name calling.We will be publishing the largest database of open benchmarks for local AI, tested on 1,000+ real hardware setups. Every device, every interconnect, different… https://t.co/ZsU3PCdSsZ— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) March 9, 2026
The Ma of a New Machine – Scott Jenson
The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new AI tools over lunch. Each week brings another one to explore. Some of these tools are very impressive; I’ve been able to reply to someone with an alternative UI design in less than a minute, and they were dumbfounded: “How did you do that so fast?”
Osaurus — Own Your AI on Apple Silicon
Own your AI: local-first agents with memory, tools, and identity on Apple Silicon. Offline, open source, and API-compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama.
Osaurus — Own Your AI on Apple Silicon
Own your AI: local-first agents with memory, tools, and identity on Apple Silicon. Offline, open source, and API-compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama.
Locally AI - Run AI models locally on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Run Llama, Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Optimized for Apple Silicon. Offline. Private.
maki
An efficient AI coding agent. Native Rust TUI. Immediate startup, 60 FPS, low memory. Indexes files instead of reading them, chains tools in a sandbox interpreter. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Z.AI, OpenRouter, Synthetic, or any OpenAI / Anthropic compatible API.
Scott Jenson – Exploring the world beyond mobile
Fast AI requires slow thinking The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new AI tools over lunch. Each week brings another one to explore. Some of these tools are very impressive; I’ve been able to reply to someone with an alternative UI design in less than a minute, and they were […]
Wafer - Ship the fastest inference in the world
Autonomous AI agents that profile, diagnose, and optimize GPU inference across your entire stack — from kernels to models to production pipelines.
Introducing Agentic Editing in Zed
Rohan Paul on Twitter / X
👨🔧 Github: Native, Apple Silicon–only local LLM server. Similar to Ollama, but built on Apple's MLX- OpenAI API compatible, - Ollama‑compatible- OpenAI‑style tools + tool_choice, with tool_calls parsing and streaming deltasgithub. com/dinoki-ai/osaurus pic.twitter.com/G0NbWnEJcQ— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) September 3, 2025
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast with OpenAI
Cerebras powers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast in the OpenAI API, delivering frontier intelligence at real-time speeds for critical AI work.
Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
It’s kind of crazy but the shitstorm of supply chain issues has created a new best-in-class local AI deployment: M5 Max MacBook clusters.- The memory unit economics are great - each MacBook has 128GB @ 614GB/s for $5k- M5 Max added tensor cores (Apple Neural Accelerators) with… https://t.co/f8STQ0tLZs pic.twitter.com/FLm3oOnyEl— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) May 14, 2026
Together AI | The AI Native Cloud
Build what's next on the AI Native Cloud. Full-stack AI platform for inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters — powered by cutting-edge research.
