Outlier releases Mac local offline AI app
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Outlier releases a local AI app for Apple Silicon Macs, with models running entirely offline on-device and code and chats kept on the local machine by default. The app only supports M1 and newer chips, and macOS 15 or later. The free version includes two model tiers, Nano (Qwen3.5-4B) and Lite (Qwen3.5-9B), and Outlier says the free tier will remain free; the Pro version is a one-time $49 purchase that unlocks all six model tiers plus features such as agents and deep research.
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- Hacker News AIShow HN: Outlier, AI without the data center, private and offline on your Mac
Outlier is a notarized macOS app that runs local AI models entirely on Apple Silicon, keeping chats, files and code on the user's disk unless web search or a cloud model with the user's own API key is enabled. It offers six model tiers from a free 4B Nano up to a 397B Plus tier, with a one-time $49 Pro license covering all tiers and features, and requires M1 or newer on macOS 15+. The post includes benchmark tables, socket-sampling evidence of local-only inference, and an explicit list of limitations, including that it does not yet match top cloud coding agents.
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