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This week on AppStories, John interviews Federico about his review of the M5 Ultra Mac Studio and it local AI capabilities.
On AppStories+, Federico takes listeners behind the scenes on how he tested the M5 Ultra Mac Studio.
Also available on YouTube here.
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Links and Show Notes
Running Local AI Models on Apple's Latest Macs
- M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
Apple Hardware
- Mac StudioMac miniStudio Display XDR
Local Models
- Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQwen3.8-27BDeepSeek-V4-FlashGLM-5.3-FlashCohere TranscribeQwen3-TTSQwen-Image-2.1
Local Inference and Clustering
- oMLXexo
Agent Apps and Tools
- Hermes AgentHermes Agent on GitHubOpen MinisCaduOpenAI Brings Computer Use to Codex App on Windows
Frontier Models and Workflow
- GPT-6 AstraClaude Fable 5.1Claude ProjectsArtificial Analysis Intelligence IndexElyx
NVIDIA PC Comparison
- GeForce RTX 5090Lian Li A3-mATXNVIDIA DGX Spark
AppStories+ Post-Show:
- A preview of how Federico used local AI models to support his iOS and iPadOS 27 review.
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