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Tech Apr 2, 2026 11 min

SwiftLM is a Swift-based LLM inference server that integrates TurboQuant and SSD streaming into Metal shaders

SwiftLM, an Apple Silicon–only MLX inference server, provides a native Metal implementation of TurboQuant V2+V3 hybrid KV‑cache compression and NVMe SSD expert streaming.

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Tech Mar 31, 2026 6 min

Ollama Moves to MLX Backend, Dramatically Speeds Up Local Inference on Apple Silicon

Ollama 0.19 switches the Apple Silicon backend to MLX, achieving 1,810 tokens/s prefill and 112 tokens/s decode. NVFP4 quantization support and cache improvements landed at the same time.

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