What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param…
A comprehensive guide outlining best practices for building reliable, user-friendly Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools with proper configuration, testing, and release management.
A compelling use case for AI: a Japanese to English translator that gives me a translation, breakdown of the Chinese characters in a Japanese phrase, and the ability to ask follow-up questions.
14-Minute Wait?! $10K Mac Studio Crawls with DeepSeek 671B + llama.cpp
We took a closer look at how the top-tier M3 Ultra fares when running the colossal DeepSeek V3 671B parameter model using the popular llama.cpp inference engine. The results paint a picture of…
Interesting release from Google, as a follow-up [to Gemma 3](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/gemma-3/) from last month: To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training …
DeepSeek R-1 is the most powerful open-source reasoning model that performs on par with OpenAI's o1 model.
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Msty is the perfect alternative to LM Studio. Msty offers a powerful and intuitive interface that makes it easy to get started, even for beginners. Say goodbye to complexities and embrace the simplicity with Msty. With innovative features like Folders, Vapor Mode, and Workspaces, Msty makes you more productive than you ever got with LM Studio.
🚀 Want to fine-tune AI models on your Mac without cloud services? As an ex-Ollama developer, I'll show you how to use Apple's MLX framework to fine-tune mod...
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like …
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MacWhisper has been updated to version 8 with some new features, including a video player. Multiple apps use the Whisper model to perform transcription. I bought a license for MacWhisper early, and I’ve been using it a lot ever since. One example: We use a Notion database to manage all the MacSparky content (this blog, the... Continue reading →
jasonjmcghee/rem: An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Apple Silicon.
An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Apple Silicon. - jasonjmcghee/rem: An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everythi...