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| October 08, 2024
YouTube Introduction to Hummingbird 2 framework Hummingbird 2 is a major new framework for the Swift on Server ecosystem. It’s a feature rich, robust and performant solution, ready to implement your next server application! This talk will show you what’s new, and how it can help you build a robust and maintainable backend. |
| October 08, 2024
Resources LM Studio 0.3.4 ships with Apple MLX LM Studio 0.3.4 ships with an MLX engine for running on-device LLMs super efficiently on Apple Silicon Macs. |
| October 02, 2024
Resources Manage virtual screens with BetterDisplay If you need to manage multiple screens on your Mac in the cloud, BetterDisplay is an ideal solution. Fully compatible with Apple Remote Desktop, it allows you to create and customize virtual displays with a variety of settings to suit your needs. |
| September 13, 2024
YouTube The state and future of Apple silicon The Secret Behind Apple's New Silicon: The Next Big Move is coming |
| September 06, 2024
Resources Open Source Email Servers for Apple macOS The 15 most popular free and open-source email servers for Apple macOS with setup guides, tutorials, videos, and instructions. |
| September 03, 2024
YouTube Fine Tune a model with MLX for Ollama Unlock the secrets of AI model fine-tuning in this easy-to-follow guide! |
| August 29, 2024
YouTube Theo: Why I Gave Up On Linux MacOS and Apple may be controversial, and they may not make me a "real developer", but the end result? I'm happy. |
| August 13, 2024
Resources Add payment options to your apps with FreemiumKit FreemiumKit is the ultimate solution for Apple platform developers to integrate and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions effortlessly. With support for all Apple platforms, FreemiumKit provides a seamless and efficient way to handle your app’s monetization. |
| August 07, 2024
Resources LibreChat is a great AI chat frontend platform This open source web UI offers vast customization, supporting numerous AI providers, services, and integrations including Apple MLX framework and models. |
| August 01, 2024
Blog Xcode BETA: how a Mac in the cloud makes sense Waiting to use new software releases is a common practice. By waiting for a few updates or patches, users can avoid many of the initial problems associated with new software releases and enjoy a smoother, more reliable experience... |
| July 29, 2024
Resources Apple Intelligence Language Models This report describes the model architecture, the data used to train the model, the training process, how the models are optimized for inference, and the evaluation results. |
| July 22, 2024
Resources CrowdStrike aftermath Macs weren’t affected thanks to protections put in place by Apple, but Microsoft has reportedly claimed that antitrust law means it’s unable to take the same approach. |
| July 22, 2024
Resources Running Mistral 7B with Core ML Apple offers a platform for developers to run models on-device, known as Core ML. This software stack allows you to run ML models across all 3 compute units (CPU, GPU & Neural Engine) available on Apple Silicon hardware. |
| July 19, 2024
Resources DCLM-7B: Apple’s Open Source 7B Model A significant step for Apple in the open-source AI landscape, showcasing their commitment. |
| July 09, 2024
Resources FastMLX, high-performance server for MLX models High performance production ready API to host MLX models, including Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Language Models (LMs). |
| July 02, 2024
Resources Apple demo of AI models Apple has released a public demo of their 4M AI model on the Hugging Face Spaces platform. |
| June 26, 2024
YouTube Swift on servers Learn the new capabilities of Swift on servers for your backend or web apps. |
| June 24, 2024
Resources Apple MLX versus Pytorch This repository contains benchmarks comparing two popular artificial intelligence frameworks. |
| June 17, 2024
Resources Build Android apps with Swift Skip brings Swift app development to Android. One language for all platforms. |
| June 13, 2024
Resources WWDC: Accelerate machine learning with Metal Learn how to accelerate your machine learning transformer models with new features in Metal. |
| June 12, 2024
Resources WWDC: Explore Swift on Server Swift is great for writing your server applications, critical services across Apple's cloud products. |
| June 12, 2024
Resources WWDC: Migrate your app to Swift 6 Experience Swift 6 migration in action as we update an existing sample app. |
| June 12, 2024
Resources WWDC: What’s new in Create ML Explore updates to Create ML for building object tracking models for visionOS apps. |
| June 12, 2024
Resources WWDC: Support real-time ML inference on the CPU Discover how you can use BNNSGraph to accelerate the execution of your ML model on the CPU. |
| June 12, 2024
Resources WWDC: Deploy ML, AI models on-device with Core ML Learn how to convert and run machine learning and AI models through Core ML. |
| June 12, 2024
Resources WWDC: Bring your ML, AI models to Apple silicon Learn how to optimize your machine learning and AI models to leverage the power of Apple silicon. |
| May 06, 2024
Resources Amazing milestone for visionOS More than 50% of fortune 100 companies are already using Vision Pro. |
| April 26, 2024
YouTube Apple’s New Open Source LLM OpenELM and Corenet are great additions to the OSS world. |
| April 24, 2024
Resources Large language models from Apple Apple has released a family of open-source large language models named OpenELM |
| April 08, 2024
Resources Macs lead global PC growth Mac shipments, market share, and growth stacked up against Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more |
| April 05, 2024
YouTube XPS 14 versus MacBook Pro Recent Intel processors cannot catchup with Apple silicon chips |
| March 11, 2024
Resources Welcome to MLX Server Open source solution for AI inference on Apple silicon servers using Apple MLX framework |
| February 27, 2024
Resources Chat with MLX This open source project is explaining in details the benefits of Apple MLX framework |
| February 22, 2024
Resources Stable Diffusion with MLX Stable Diffusion in MLX for Apple Silicon Macs - Create Stunning Images |
| February 16, 2024
YouTube Apple’s New JSON/YAML Killer New Apple language for configuration files to be programmable, scalable, and safe |
| February 15, 2024
YouTube M3 Max MLX beats RTX4090m The M3 Max chip is even more capable in ML workflows with Apple MLX Framework. |
| February 14, 2024
Resources Apple Keyframer AI engine Apple Keyframer generates AI animation from a still image and text prompt |
| January 29, 2024
Resources Deploying LLMs with Apple’s MLX A technical deep dive into the new deep learning library MLX. The way to deploy on a Mac server. |
| January 20, 2024
YouTube A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro Experience what it’s like to use Apple’s first ever spatial computer. Video made by Apple. |
| January 05, 2024
Blog Xcode Cloud in details Check this article explaining that Xcode Cloud service is still very complicated to use.... |
| December 29, 2023
Blog Machine Learning Research Apple is investing in AI since many years with many projects in development.... |
| December 07, 2023
Resources Screens 5 goes universal The excellent VNC remote desktop app for Apple devices, has finally gone universal with Screens 5. |
| December 05, 2023
Resources MLX Framework by Apple Machine learning research on your laptop or in a data center, built for Apple silicon. |
| December 01, 2023
Resources Inside Apple chip lab Inside Apple’s chip lab, home to the most ‘profound change’ at the company in decades. |
| November 28, 2023
YouTube M3 Max AI benchmarks Video running Llama models using the new M3 max with 128GB, comparing it with a M1 pro and RTX 4090. |
| November 27, 2023
YouTube M3 Chips in details In-depth analysis of Apple's new 3nm chips: M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max with the TSMC N3B process node. |
| November 24, 2023
Resources Apple silicon performance A collection of short llama.cpp benchmarks on various Apple Silicon hardware. |
| November 22, 2023
YouTube Mojo in details A system programming language for heterogenous computing with the syntax of Python. Built for AI projects. |
| November 21, 2023
YouTube The future of Apple silicon What's next for the Cupertino Giant as we move into the future. What comes after M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max? |
| November 08, 2023
Resources The Mac in the Age of AI Mac is not absent from the conversation when it comes to silicon capabilities of running large language models. |
| November 07, 2023
Resources Evolution of Apple Neural Engine A Mac can use of a specialized neural processing unit called Apple Neural Engine (ANE). |
| November 01, 2023
Resources Llama 2 AI assistant You can install a self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2, code assistant too. |
| October 24, 2023
YouTube The Next Era with AI Insights to help CIOs stay out in front of this new era of human-machine relationships and AI. |
| October 17, 2023
Resources Llama2 Ports on M1 Max Llama2 Ports Extensive Benchmark Results on Mac M1 Max using Mojo language. |
| October 17, 2023
Resources macOS Docker containers Native MacOS Docker Containers are Now Possible with macOS Containers. |
| October 12, 2023
Resources Emirates airline choice Emirates airline has equipped 20,000 cabin crew members with Apple hardware. |
| October 12, 2023
YouTube Mac in the Enterprise How Cisco Boosted Employee Satisfaction and Security with Device Choice. |
| October 11, 2023
Resources Getting started with VisionOS Dilmer walk you through the process of adding RealityView, custom components, and more. |
| September 29, 2023
Resources Mac is more secure for IT New IDC Report: more IT departments are supporting Macs today because they’re more secure. |
| September 28, 2023
Resources Benefits from macOS Sonoma, iOS 17 How businesses will benefit from macOS Sonoma and iOS 17 |
| September 28, 2023
Resources Core ML Stable Diffusion You can run Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon with Core ML. Easy app integration. |
| September 24, 2023
Resources Optimizing Metal There is a vast array of ways to optimize your Metal graphics code to get top performance. |
| September 22, 2023
Resources Mojo: the performance of C Mojo is a new language for AI that can be thousands of times faster than Python. |
| September 22, 2023
Resources What Cisco learned about Mac Macs are less vulnerable to cyber threats than PCs and less expensive over time. |
| September 20, 2023
Resources Enterprise shift to Macs IDC anticipates the number of Macs sold to business users will jump by 20%. |
| September 18, 2023
YouTube Bun 1.0 is available Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit designed for speed, an alternative to NodeJS. |
| September 10, 2023
Resources Swift on servers Learn about unique characteristics that make it specifically suitable for Server applications |
| September 08, 2023
Resources Open Interpreter on Mac OpenAI's or Llama Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally |
| September 07, 2023
Resources Llama 2 outperforms GPT 3.5 A look at Llama inference performance on RTX 3090 and Mac M2 Ultra |
| September 07, 2023
YouTube Uncensored Llama 2 on a Mac Ollama is the simplest way of getting Llama 2 installed on apple silicon |
| September 07, 2023
YouTube LLaMA2 install on Mac Install LLaMA2 on an Apple Silicon Mac, and run some code generation |
| September 07, 2023
YouTube Machine Learning on Neural Engine Taking machine learning out for a spin on the new M2 Max and M2 Pro |
| September 06, 2023
YouTube The Next Decade of Software Dev Richard Campbell is explaining that Apple Silicon is the best chip architecture at 14:30 |
| August 19, 2023
Resources Apple Silicon Developer Setup Setting up a Mac for some programming and development |
| August 19, 2023
Resources Cisco employees are going Mac Fletcher Previn at Cisco, says the Mac fared well in the company’s employee work program. |
| August 18, 2023
YouTube M2 Ultra Mac Studio: King of Macs After 200 hours since launch, the Mac Studio with the M2 Ultra chip has surprised me |
| August 18, 2023
YouTube M2 Ultra vs Nvidia for AI Can Apple M2 Ultra Run Falcon 40B FASTER than nVidia? open discussion |
| August 18, 2023
Resources The Secure Enclave explained The Secure Enclave is a dedicated secure subsystem integrated into Apple SoCSs |
| August 17, 2023
Resources SSWG 2023 Annual Update The Swift Server workgroup (SSWG) reflects on recent community accomplishments |
| August 09, 2023
YouTube M2 Ultra versus Intel Mac Pro Hw much better is it than the old Intel Mac Pro? You'll be shocked! |
| August 06, 2023
YouTube Setup a Mac for Machine Learning A Mac can be used for data science and machine learning with PyTorch |
| August 06, 2023
YouTube Is Apple’s biggest CPU/GPU faster? Is it enough to overtake nVidia, AMD and Intel? Reply in the video! |
| July 27, 2023
YouTube Apple Silicon Mac Pro Review Apple’s M2 Ultra powered Mac Pro is the final step in their Apple Silicon transition |
| July 13, 2023
Resources Using a Mac as a Software Engineer Why the MacBook M1 Max has been a game changer for me |
| July 06, 2023
YouTube M2 Ultra BLEW MY MIND I was gobsmacked by the amount of performance gains |
| July 06, 2023
YouTube M2 Ultra Mac Studio Review Look at this, This is the MacPro Now. M2 Ultra Mac Studio is a beast |
| June 16, 2023
YouTube VS Code, Python on Apple Silicon VS is a free, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft |
| June 16, 2023
Resources Health AI research A script written in Swift was used to train and evaluate four machine learning models |
| May 19, 2023
YouTube Apple’s Secret Operating System Did you know your Mac runs multiple OSes at once? Learn about the secure enclave |
| May 11, 2023
YouTube TensorFlow with Docker on a Mac How to use TensorFlow inside of a Docker container with any Mac |
| April 04, 2023
YouTube LLaMA & Alpaca on Mac You can run state-of-the-art large language models on Mac computers |
| February 01, 2023
YouTube What are Apple’s GPU cores? In Apple Silicon, at least for the M1 series, Each core is split into 16 Execution Units |
| January 24, 2023
YouTube M2 Pro Mac Mini Review This tiny computer out-benchmarks the base Mac Pro... and the price went down |
| September 06, 2022
YouTube When M1 DESTROYS a RTX card Testing the M1 Max GPU with a machine learning training session |
| May 01, 2022
Resources The future of server side Swift What's going to happen with Swift on the Server? Distributed actors, Vapor 5 and more. |
| September 06, 2021
Resources Customize macOS Terminal A take you through customizing it to make for a much better experience |
| September 06, 2021
YouTube How a CPU Works in 100 Seconds Apple Silicon M1 versus Intel i9. Learm more about the advantage of Apple architecture |
