Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Prince Canuma's Nativ is a new macOS desktop application that wraps Apple's MLX framework to run AI models locally, offering both a chat interface and a localhost API server. The app automatically detects MLX models already in the user's Hugging Face cache directory.

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ 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. The app picked up MLX models I had already tried that were present in my Hugging Face cache directory, which was a nice touch. Via Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Tags: macos https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos , python https://simonwillison.net/tags/python , ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai , generative-ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai , local-llms https://simonwillison.net/tags/local-llms , llms https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms , mlx https://simonwillison.net/tags/mlx , prince-canuma https://simonwillison.net/tags/prince-canuma