nace-ai / kapitsa
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 - Maintenance
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- +96 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- 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
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
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
