@DanKornas: Fine-tuning local LLMs shouldn’t require renting a cloud GPU. Silicon Studio is an open-source desktop app for local LL…
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Silicon Studio is an open-source desktop app that enables local LLM fine-tuning and inference on Apple Silicon Macs using MLX, with features for data preparation, model management, and visual configuration.
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Fine-tuning local LLMs shouldn’t require renting a cloud GPU.
Silicon Studio is an open-source desktop app for local LLM fine-tuning and inference on Apple Silicon Macs.
It helps you prepare data, manage models, fine-tune with MLX, and test results in one local workflow instead of stitching together separate scripts and notebooks.
Key features:
• Native Apple Silicon path – uses Apple’s MLX framework for hardware-accelerated LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and inference on M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs • Data preparation studio – preview and edit JSONL/CSV datasets, strip PII locally, and convert CSV to JSONL for chat templates • Hugging Face model management – browse, download, and manage open-source models like Llama 3, Mistral, Qwen 2.5, Gemma, and Phi • Visual fine-tuning setup – configure learning rate, epochs, rank, and related settings without living entirely in config files • Local chat testing – switch between base models and fine-tuned adapters in a ChatGPT-like interface, with private/offline inference
It’s open-source (MIT license).
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