A developer ported NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B speech-to-speech model to native Swift using MLX, running full-duplex conversation on Apple Silicon with no cloud, no Python, and faster-than-real-time inference.
Apple launches M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros with Neural Accelerators in every GPU core, 128GB unified memory, and 614GB/s bandwidth - enough to run Llama 70B on a laptop.
Awni Hannun, the Stanford-trained researcher who co-created Apple's MLX machine learning framework, announced his departure from Apple. His exit is the latest in a devastating exodus of AI talent that has hollowed out Apple's ML research bench over the past year.
