Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Nativ has released an open-source desktop app that lets users run frontier open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI locally on Apple Silicon Macs with no accounts, subscriptions, or cloud dependency. The app, built on MLX-VLM and tuned for M-series unified memory, offers features like streaming, markdown, code highlighting, and image input, and is MIT licensed and free forever.

Pick the right model for your Mac Run standout open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI. Nativ recommends the right partner model for your hardware. Nativ puts frontier intelligence on your desk. Download and run open models on Apple Silicon — no accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud. Universal · Apple Silicon M1+ / SIX REASONS TO GO LOCAL Run standout open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI. Nativ recommends the right partner model for your hardware. A clean interface with streaming, markdown, code highlighting, and image input. Every response is generated locally. Live tokens/sec, memory pressure, thermal state, and time-to-first-token. The details developers want. Built on MLX-VLM and tuned for M-series unified memory and Metal — no wrappers, no translation layers. Chat with an LLM, caption an image, summarize video, autocomplete code, or transcribe and generate speech. No accounts to create, no credits to buy, no data to sell. You own it end-to-end. / INTEGRATIONS Connect the coding agents you already use to models running locally on your Mac. Nativ handles the endpoint; your workflow stays familiar. MANIFESTO · REV 1.0 philosophy.txt UTF-8$ cat philosophy.txt The other “local AI” apps you’ve heard of? They’re proprietary shells built on top of open-source engines they don’t own. They keep the UI closed, add a paywall, and hope you don’t look under the hood. We built in the open. The desktop app is open too. Every line. Every model loader. Every telemetry chart. You can read it, fork it, or send a pull request tonight. No VC roadmap. No enterprise tier. No dark pattern that turns your prompts into training data. Just software made by researchers and hackers, for researchers and hackers. // Community owned. MIT licensed. Free forever. / PARTNER MODELS YOUR MAC IS MORE CAPABLE THAN YOU THINK Run it locally, in the open.