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ollama
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claude-code
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off-grid-mobile-ai
The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Supports text-to-text, vision, text-to-image
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omlx
LLM inference server with continuous batching & SSD caching for Apple Silicon — managed from the macOS menu bar
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Apple Core AI Framework
i am more excited about the ondevice foundation model update that is coming https://developer.apple.com/documentation/updates/foundation... (not much info yet)
but i maintain https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel so i might be biased
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Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
It's a 3B Apple Foundation model.
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...
If you've got a mac, you can use this to play around with it:
https://apfel.franzai.com/
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Local AI needs to be the norm
i researched that question for apfel https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel and standardized API is openai api so thats what i went with
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Yeah, local is clearly the future. Even beyond the cheap Chinese models you can install the apfel[1] stuff if you're on a mac and want a quick available onboard cli option. And I'm sure people will adapt the Flash-MoE[2] integration to be even better soon as well.
[1] https://apfel.franzai.com/
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LLM pricing has never made sense
> I don’t think it’s crazy to believe that people will also be running local inference on their phones in the next 5 years.
How about now? https://apfel.franzai.com/ (iOS) https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile-ai (Android)
Foundation model investment feels like the bubble around fiber optics circa 2001 - a great technology being pushed forward by a speculative mania as it seems like it'll be useful in some profitable way, but nobody's quite sure how.
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Claude Opus 4.7
as every AI provider is pushing news today, just wanted to say that apfel is v1.0.4 stable today https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
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Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
I created "apfel" https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel a CLI for apple on-device local foundation model. yeah its super limited with its 4k context window and super common false positives guardrails (just ask it to describe a color) ... bit still ... using it in bash scripts that just work without calling home / out and incurring extra costs feels super powerful.
- Apfel CLI – use your free Apple Intelligence on your Mac your way
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Local LLM by Ente
if you are into local LLMs check out apfel
https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
Apple Ai on the command line
- Show HN: Apfel - Apple Intelligence from the Command Line
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Arthur-Ficial/apfel is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of apfel is Swift.
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