Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

<p><strong><a href="https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/">Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac</a></strong></p> Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent <a href="https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm">MLX-VLM</a> Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac.</p> <p>I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's similar in shape to LM Studio, providing both a chat interface and a localhost API server for accessing models.</p> <p>The app picked up MLX models I had already tried that were present in my Hugging Face cache directory, which was a nice touch. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/local-llms">local-llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mlx">mlx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/prince-canuma">prince-canuma</a></p>