Stories tagged “Apple Silicon.”
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Parallels Desktop 27 introduces a new Metal-based graphics driver, OpenGL 4.3 support for Windows virtual machines on Apple silicon, and faster local AI workloads. This update enhances the virtualization experience on macOS, making it more suitable for professionals and g…
Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series Mac
A custom Swift + Metal runtime for any Apple Silicon Mac, even the 8 GB ones, that runs the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B without loading the entire 14.3 GB model into memory.
According to the latest Power On newsletter from Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing to include up to 1.5TB of RAM in the upcoming M7 Ultra chip, finally matching the highest RAM configuration available on the highest end 2019 Intel Mac Pro.
I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
A developer indexed over 600 GB of GoPro cycling videos using open-source ML models on an M1 Max, allowing for local search and direct export of clips to DaVinci Resolve.