Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac
Nativ is a new macOS desktop app for running AI models locally via MLX
Developer Prince Canuma released Nativ, a macOS desktop application wrapping Apple's MLX framework to run LLMs and vision models locally, offering a chat interface and localhost API server similar to LM Studio. The app auto-detects MLX models from existing Hugging Face cache. It's a notable addition to the growing local inference ecosystem on Apple Silicon, but represents incremental tooling rather than a major industry shift.