Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac：https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ (via：https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681) Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM：https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac.

I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's similar in shape to LM Studio, providing both a chat interface and a localhost API server for accessing models.

The app picked up MLX models I had already tried that were present in my Hugging Face cache directory, which was a nice touch.

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