#Apple Silicon
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Apple Runs a Nearly-Trillion-Parameter AI Model Across Four Mac Studios Using Thunderbolt Cables
A cluster of four consumer desktop computers now generates text faster than you can read it, and the electricity bill stays under 300 watts per machine.
Your MacBook Could Be Running AI Workloads While You Sleep
Apple ML Research has built a system called Minions that pools the idle GPUs inside MacBooks and Mac desktops to run the kind of AI tasks that normally require expensive server farms.
Liquid AI's vision model gets a speed boost of up to 3.13 times with no change to what it says
A 280-million-parameter add-on lets LFM2.5-VL-3B generate text up to 3.13 times faster on Apple silicon, leaving output word-for-word identical.
Hugging Face Lets You Run Compressed AI Models on Your Mac With One Line of Code
Hugging Face has built GGUF support into its Transformers library, letting Apple Silicon Mac users load and run lightweight AI models at speeds matching dedicated local-AI apps, no special setup required.
The Creator of oMLX Joins Hugging Face to Push Local AI Forward on Apple Devices
Jun Kim, who built and maintains oMLX, is now a full-time Hugging Face hire. The move puts serious muscle behind the open-source toolkit that lets Apple Silicon chips run AI models without a cloud connection.
Perplexity's new hybrid AI keeps your sensitive files on your Mac while still using cloud intelligence
A built-in privacy filter decides in real time which parts of a task stay local and which go to the cloud. Lawyers, finance teams and healthcare workers are the target audience.
Apple's New On-Device AI Voice Tech Makes Siri Sound More Human, Without Sending Your Audio to the Cloud
A research paper from Apple's machine learning team reveals the audio engine behind Siri's more expressive new voices. All the processing happens on your iPhone, using a chip you already have.
Apple's Abandoned Self-Driving Car Quietly Built the AI Chip Inside Every iPhone
A cancelled car project turns out to be the origin story of Apple's most important piece of AI hardware.