WWDC26: Run local agentic AI on the Mac using MLX | Apple
Apple's MLX stack lets developers run full agentic AI loops locally on Mac with no cloud or API keys.
“No cloud, no API keys, just your hardware doing the work.”
At WWDC26, Apple's MLX team showed how to run complete agentic AI workflows entirely on-device using a four-layer stack (MLX, MLX-LM, an OpenAI-compatible MLX-LM Server, and any agent framework), with M5 Neural Accelerators delivering ~4x faster prompt processing, continuous batching for concurrent subagents, and distributed inference across multiple Macs. It matters because it pushes capable agentic AI off the cloud and onto local hardware, eliminating usage costs and keeping data private while underpinning popular tools like Ollama, LM Studio, and vLLM.