Apple Foundation Models: local AI natively on MacOS 27

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Apple has released their Apple Foundation Models (AFM) for local use on MacOS 27, accessible via a terminal command, prompting discussions on the impact of local AI and open models.

Maybe some of you know but I didn’t see any post about this. Apple just made available their AFM model on MacOS 27 natively. Just run fm chat in a terminal. Disclaimer: I’m an open weight person. I prefer open models and ecosystem, but I’ll still open the discussion. Did you test them? Build using them? Are these models good? I feel like this is still a huge step in the direction of local AI that a company like Apple does this and release hardware optimized models. So what do you think?
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