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Blazing fast Apple Silicon inference engine optimized for Qwen & Nemotron. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. Built by folks from nace.ai

Why this job: says: inference engine; topics: apple-silicon, llama-cpp, ollama, local-llm, llm-inference, mlx

What it does

  • 351 tok/s on Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (M5 Max), the fastest decode in 33 of 38 model and Mac pairs. KFlash, tree speculative decoding: one verify pass checks a tree of the drafter's guesses, with a DFlash2, DFlash, MTP, DSpark or LiLiCorr drafter be
  • Downloads closer to the original model, at the same size. The Qwen3.5 4B and 9B packs are KQuant builds: the same MLX 4-bit files, a third less error on the 4B and half on the 9B (KQuant).
  • A 180B model on a 48 GB Mac, at 61 tok/s (M5 Pro). Its routed experts stream from the SSD, as many as the budget holds.
  • A 16K follow-up after a restart starts in 0.16 s instead of 17 s. Conversations stay on the SSD (--disk-cache).
  • Prefill on the GPU and the Neural Engine together. Prefill hands part of its work to the Neural Engine, which the GPU would otherwise wait on.

Get started

brew install nace-ai/tap/kapitsa
# or: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nace-ai/kapitsa/main/install.sh | bash
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Licence
Apache-2.0
Allows business use
Downloads for
Mac
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Latest version
v0.2.33
Released yesterday
Built with
C++
55% of the code

Is it looked after?

Contributors
10
Last 90 days
Issues
80% closed
11 still open
Pull requests
620 merged
22 waiting
Releases
43
30+ in the last year

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Download files, v0.2.33

  • Mac2 files, 91 downloads

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Languages

  • C++ 55%
  • Python 23%
  • Metal 16%
  • Shell 2%

Topics

  • apple-silicon
  • clover
  • coding-agents
  • decision-models
  • drex
  • flint
  • llama-cpp
  • llm-inference
  • local-llm
  • macos
  • metal
  • mlx

Project record

  • JobLocal LLMs
  • StatusNew to our list
  • Commits1,210
  • Forks102
  • Watching16
  • CreatedOct 16, 2026
  • First seen by usNov 10, 2026
  • CheckedNov 10, 2026

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