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Apple Foundation Models: local AI natively on MacOS 27

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Maybe some of you know but I didn’t see any post about this. Apple just made available their AFM model on MacOS 27 natively. Just run fm chat in a terminal. Disclaimer: I’m an open weight person. I prefer open models and ecosystem, but I’ll still open the discussion. Did you test them? Build using…

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  1. 2026-09-15 16:37 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Apple Foundation Models: local AI natively on MacOS 27

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