New comment by erikkahler in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

erikkahler — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:51:02 +0000

To clarify, this MIT-licensed app is from the very same dev, 'Prince Canuma', who maintains the popular MLX-VLM library (https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm). MLX-VLM is a long-time dependency of the excellent LM Studio and others because it can provide faster inference on Apple devices than llama.cpp. Historically, MLX is a smaller community than CUDA, but has some of the fastest updates upon the release of new models, particularly in models with modalities beyond text-in, text-out (vision, STT, TTS, video gen). See also (https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-audio-swift). Would be totally unsurprised if those modalities and models get integrated into this UI.

Possibly vibe-coded landing page notwithstanding, the app is mostly written in Swift language. That suggests it will be easy to port this inference stack to iPad and iPhone.

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