APPLE-SILICON

Ollama 0.40 runs supported models on MLX on Apple Silicon and quietly keeps a backup copy of every model you load. What it costs in disk, what is fixed, and the cleanup.

TurboFieldfare is a custom Swift and Metal inference engine that runs Google's 26B-parameter Gemma 4 MoE model in roughly 2 GB of RAM on any Apple Silicon Mac, including 8 GB base models.

Apple's array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon. Native Metal support, unified memory, first-class LLM inference.

Desktop app for discovering, downloading, and running local LLMs. Clean chat UI, OpenAI-compatible API server, and automatic GPU detection. MLX engine optimized for Apple Silicon.