Mac with Apple silicon is increasingly popular among AI developers and researchers interested in using their Mac to experiment with the…
The Potential of M6 and M5 Ultra for Local AI on macOS
Earlier today, Apple unveiled the new generation of Mac mini and Mac Studio, featuring the latest entries in the Apple silicon family of chips: the M6, available in the Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra, exclusive to the Mac Studio. You can read more details about the announcement and related specs in John’s overview. As
mzau/broke-cluster
A Poor Man's Apple Silicon LLM Cluster — tuned for MLX, scalable without shame.
Doriandarko/MLX-GRPO
A pure MLX-based training pipeline for fine-tuning LLMs using GRPO on Apple Silicon.
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
A new approach to efficient large scale distributed training on Apple Silicon.Most AI research today is focused on traditional GPUs. These GPUs have a LOT of FLOPS but not much memory. They have a low memory:flops ratio. Apple Silicon has a lot more memory available for the GPU… https://t.co/FsNFnsvphJ pic.twitter.com/LFE1gtAm33— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) July 11, 2025
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
MPS or MLX for Domestic AI? The Answer Will Surprise You
Let’s explore new Apple’s deep learning framework, run modern LLM on a laptop, and find an intriguing hint for performance of PyTorch MPS
Run LLMs locally on your Mac · mlx-optiq
Quantize, fine-tune and serve LLMs locally on Apple Silicon. MLX-native, no PyTorch, no cloud. On PyPI.
ARahim3/mlx-tune
Fine-tune LLMs on your Mac with Apple Silicon. SFT, DPO, GRPO, Vision, TTS, STT, Embedding, and OCR fine-tuning — natively on MLX. Unsloth-compatible API.
ARahim3/mlx-tune
Fine-tune LLMs on your Mac with Apple Silicon. SFT, DPO, GRPO, Vision, TTS, STT, Embedding, and OCR fine-tuning — natively on MLX. Unsloth-compatible API.
Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for LLMs. That’s About to Change
The quest to run large AI models locally on an individual's machine are driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades.
XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference
Multiple NVIDIA GPUs or Apple Silicon for Large Language Model Inference?
ModelScope on Twitter / X
🤯 400 Token/S on a MacBook? Yes, you read that right!Shaohong Chen just fine-tuned the Qwen3-0.6B LLM in under 2 minutes using Apple's MLX framework. This is how you turn your MacBook into a serious LLM development rig. A step-by-step guide and performance metrics inside! 🧵… pic.twitter.com/31Cmycy8Mh— ModelScope (@ModelScope2022) October 13, 2025
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.
apple-silicon-llm-bench/results/complete_results.html at main · AlexHiesch/apple-silicon-llm-bench
Systematic LLM inference benchmark for Apple Silicon: 8 backends, 7 models, 791 measurements - AlexHiesch/apple-silicon-llm-bench