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Local LLMs on your Mac, on supported Apple Silicon generations: M1, M2, M4 (M3 untested here).

Whose work, which task.

Developers who run open language models on a Mac and want one binary instead of a framework stack: a quick chat, a one-shot run, or a local HTTP endpoint with OpenAI-style request and response shapes for their own tools.

What comes back.

$ veizik run qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct "In two sentences, what is a safetensors checkpoint?" --tokens 96
A safetensors checkpoint is a file that contains the weights and biases of a neural network model, which are used to train the model and generate the model's output. The safetensors format is designed to be more efficient and portable than the original TensorFlow checkpoint format, and it allows for better compression and storage of the model's weights. It is commonly used in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence to save and load neural network models.

Mac Studio (M1 Ultra), the shipped 2026.10.02 disk image, 2026-10-02, greedy decoding. First run right after installing: 3.8 s from the command to the full answer; the next run 0.8 s. Printed as generated; the model's description of the format is its own.

Where it runs, and what.

• Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer), macOS 13 or later, arm64 only. Intel Macs are not supported.
• Tested on macOS 15.5 (M2 Pro), 15.7.7 (M4 Pro), 26.5 (M1 Max) and 26.5.1 (M1 Ultra).

19 catalogue ids in the download. The measured table, with device memory per model and the build it was taken on, is on the hardware page.

From the package to a first answer.

Register this device. With no options it opens your browser so you can approve the machine from your account, and prints the link as well in case it cannot. One activation per device — not per model. An already-approved device is never sent to the browser again: a new release or an expiring lease is renewed silently with this Mac's Secure Enclave key, and `--refresh` does only that (it never opens a browser, and fails if this Mac is not approved or was disabled from your account). For a machine with no browser — a server over SSH, a build agent — create an enrolment key and set a CLI password on your account page, then give the key with `--key KEY` (or `-k`). `--key -` reads VEIZIK_ACTIVATION_KEY and `--key file:PATH` reads the first line of PATH. The password comes from `--password-stdin` (recommended), `--password-file PATH`, or, if you give none of these, a prompt. `--password PW` passes it on the command line, where `ps` and your shell history can see it — the command warns, and your account is e-mailed to say the password should be changed. `--no-password` is for a key issued without one. `--email ADDR` uses your account address and CLI password instead of a key, if you turned that on for your account; it may e-mail you a six-digit code, which `--code CODE` supplies when you already have it. Personal, educational, research and evaluation use at no charge, including internal evaluation inside a company; commercial use needs a separate licence from LinkPick; publishing benchmarks is permitted (LICENSE sections 2 and 4 in the disk image).

veizik-metal-2026.10.02-r10.dmg · 6.08 MB · Apple disk image (.dmg), signed and notarised

sha256 d74d9f2f6b167679df1294325c12921709363f3d6aa75633f2edfd043ca9f678

$ shasum -a 256 veizik-metal-2026.10.02-r10.dmg # d74d9f2f6b167679df1294325c12921709363f3d6aa75633f2edfd043ca9f678
$ ./install.sh
$ veizik activate
$ veizik pull qwen2.5-7b
$ veizik chat qwen2.5-7b
$ veizik run qwen2.5-7b "The capital of France is"
$ veizik serve qwen2.5-7b --port 8000

Measured on this build.

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Method, spread and the build each row was taken on →

Prefill

Method, spread and the build each row was taken on →

Model weight footprint

Method, spread and the build each row was taken on →

Every row, and how to reproduce it.

Every published row names the device, the model, the token counts, how it was timed, and the spread. Rows taken on earlier builds of the same cores are marked. The board →

$ veizik bench qwen2.5-7b