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Local AI on four Macs: MLX capacity, speed and trust boundaries

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Local AI gets a hardware question before it gets a leaderboard question: can the model and its working memory fit on the machine? Apple's distributed MLX demonstration shows how several Mac Studios can make a very large Meta model usable at a desk. Its own measurements also show why adding a second…

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