Apple announced a new Mac Studio powered by the M5 Ultra chip, its most powerful chip ever, featuring up to a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine, delivering up to 4.5x the peak GPU co…
A team at Cua has developed a process-scoped Metal capability shim that unlocks 11-16x faster LLM inference in macOS virtual machines on Apple Silicon, bringing VM performance to 94-99% of bare-metal …
Cua released an open-source Metal capability layer on August 11th that accelerates llama.cpp inference inside Apple Silicon macOS virtual machines, reporting prompt-processing gains up to 11.08x and t…
Cua's Metal capability shim recovers up to 16.36× llama.cpp throughput in macOS virtual machines by unmasking GPU capabilities that Apple's paravirtualized graphics device underreports. On an M1 Ultra…
Cua, a company building computer-use agent infrastructure on macOS virtual machines, achieved 11–16× faster llama.cpp inference inside Apple Silicon VMs by intercepting Metal capability queries to rep…
A compatibility layer for Apple's Virtualization.framework released by Cua under a permissive license accelerates LLM inference in macOS virtual machines by 11.08× for prompt processing and 16.36× for…