Tag: Apple Silicon
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macOS 27 Ships a Foundation Model at the Command Line
macOS 27 “Golden Gate” shipped on September 14, 2026, and with it a system binary at /usr/bin/fm — a command-line interface to Apple’s on-device foundation model, pre-installed, always available, and free of API keys, accounts, and per-token costs. Apple has shipped on-device models since 2024 and opened the Foundation Models framework to developers in 2025, […]
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Apple’s A20 Pro Doubles the Neural Engine to 32 Cores
On September 9, 2026, Apple announced the A20 Pro — the first smartphone SoC built on a 2-nanometer process, and the first A-series chip to ship a 32-core Neural Engine. Apple describes the design as a “Dual 16-core Neural Engine” delivering double the AI processing power of the A19 Pro, paired with a 50 percent […]
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Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio: 512GB of Unified Memory for Local AI
On August 25, 2026, Apple announced a new Mac Studio built around the M5 Max and the quad-die M5 Ultra — a desktop configurable with up to 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth. Apple is pitching it explicitly at people running large language models locally: the company says the M5 Ultra configuration […]
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JetBrains Ships Junie Local: A 27B Coding Agent That Runs Offline
JetBrains has released Junie Local, a version of its agentic coding assistant that runs entirely on the developer’s own machine — no cloud endpoint, no token quota, and no source code leaving the laptop. Announced in August 2026, it ships a pre-tuned Qwen3.6-27B at 4-bit quantization, installs with a single /local command inside Junie, and […]
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Language Model Builder: Train a Small LLM From Scratch on Your Mac
On July 21, 2026, developer Felix Rieseberg released Language Model Builder — a free native macOS app that walks you through building a small language model from scratch on your own hardware. It pairs an interactive textbook on tokenization, embeddings, attention, and transformers with a real training pipeline: pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and direct preference optimization, […]
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Apple Open-Sources Its Foundation Models Framework, Adds Claude and Gemini
At WWDC 2026 on June 9, Apple announced it will open-source its Foundation Models framework — the on-device AI layer that powers Apple Intelligence — later this summer. Alongside the open-source pledge, Apple opened the framework to third-party models like Claude and Gemini, added image input, and made its newest cloud models free to small […]
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Karpathy’s microGPT on FPGA Loses to a Single MacBook Core by 71x
A custom FPGA implementation of Andrej Karpathy’s microGPT was clocked at 53,000 tokens per second — and then promptly out-run by a single M4 Max MacBook P-core doing roughly 71× the throughput in plain C. The benchmark, published on May 2, 2026 by Alex Cheema, has reignited a long-running debate in the local-AI community: when […]