Backburner

A local inference engine for Apple silicon, built around the model.

Run a 105 GB AI model on a Mac that can't hold it. Slotstream streams Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B mixture of experts) from your SSD and caches the busiest experts…

The fastest way to run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Qwen 3.8 27B and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Mac: 125 tok/s in OpenCode on an M5 Max, and a 27B model on 16 GB Macs.

Up to 4× faster LLM decoding on Apple Silicon, lossless. Native MLX port of DeepSeek's DSpark & z-lab's DFlash speculative decoding — Gemma-4, Qwen3.8,…

Open-source AI meeting notes for Mac. Records mic + system audio with no bot, transcribes on-device or via OpenAI / Deepgram / Groq, identifies speakers…

Local LLM Testing & Benchmarking for Apple Silicon