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<h1 align="center">Rapid-MLX</h1>
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<strong>Run AI on your Mac. Faster than anything else.</strong>
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Run local AI models on your Mac — no cloud, no API costs. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, and any OpenAI-compatible app.
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<a href="https://rapidmlx.com"><b>rapidmlx.com</b></a> ·
<a href="https://rapidmlx.com/desktop">Desktop app</a> ·
<a href="https://rapidmlx.com/performance/">Community benchmarks</a> ·
<a href="https://models.rapidmlx.com/">Model mirror</a>
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<em>pip install → serve Gemma 4 26B → chat + tool calling → works with PydanticAI, LangChain, Aider, and more.</em>
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| | Your Mac | Model | Speed (tok/s) | What works |
|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 16 GB MacBook Air | Qwen3.5-4B | 147 tok/s | Chat, coding, tools |
| 24 GB MacBook Pro | Qwen3.5-9B | 101 tok/s | Great all-rounder |