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Apple Silicon AI — Your Macs Are the Cluster

Turn your Mac Studio, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro into a local Apple Silicon AI fleet. One endpoint routes LLM inference, image generation, speech-to-text, and embeddings across every Apple Silicon device on your network.

No cloud APIs. No GPU rentals. No Docker. Your Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3/M4 chips with unified memory are already better inference hardware than most cloud instances — you just need software that treats them as an Apple Silicon fleet.

Why Apple Silicon for AI

Apple Silicon unified memory keeps the entire model in one address space — no PCIe bottleneck, no CPU-GPU transfer overhead. A Mac Studio with M4 Ultra and 256GB runs 120B parameter models that would need multiple NVIDIA A100s. That is the Apple Silicon advantage.

Apple Silicon Chip Unified Memory LLM Sweet Spot Apple Silicon Image Gen Notes
M1 (8GB) 8GB 7B models Slow Entry-level Apple Silicon
M1 Pro/Max (32-64GB) 32-64GB 14B-32B Capable Apple Silicon MacBook Pro
M2 Ultra (192GB) 192GB 70B-120B Fast Apple Silicon Mac Studio/Pro
M3 Max (128GB) 128GB 70B Fast Latest Apple Silicon MacBook Pro
M4 Max (128GB) 128GB 70B Fast Apple Silicon Mac Studio, newest gen
M4 Ultra (256GB) 256GB 120B+ Very fast Apple Silicon Mac Studio/Pro, largest models
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