Apple's on-device AI foundation models (AFM 3 Core) are now accessible via the fm command-line tool on Macs with M3 chips or later. The article explores how to use fm for local AI tasks without sending data to Private Cloud Compute, demonstrating both its capabilities and limitations through examples of Q&A and Chat modes.
HAL-X AI released THX-01, an open-source 322M-parameter decision model that runs locally on phones and achieves 98.4% accuracy on support-ticket classification with 150× faster inference than Claude Sonnet 5.5. Unlike large language models, THX-01 answers structured questions directly through a single forward pass, supporting features like number extraction, verbatim excerpts, and calibrated confidence estimates across 20 languages.