Why it matters

Apple Silicon enables strong local AI. Understanding shapes desktop/laptop AI.

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The architecture

Unified memory: CPU + GPU + NPU share RAM.

Enables large models locally (up to 128GB).

Apple Silicon AIUnified memoryup to 128GBGPU cores10-40+Neural Engine (NPU)18-38 TOPSMLX: Apple's ML framework; llama.cpp works via Metal backend
Apple Silicon AI stack.
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How it works end to end

MLX: Apple's array framework for ML. NumPy-like + auto-differentiation.

llama.cpp with Metal backend: fast LLM inference on Mac.

Whisper, Stable Diffusion also work well.