Nativ: A Native macOS Home for Your Local MLX Models, Now a First-Class DevoxxGenie Provider
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The local AI story on the Mac has always been a bit of a scavenger hunt. The models live in a Hugging Face cache, the server is a Python process you babysit in a terminal, the performance numbers are whatever flew past in the logs, and the chat UI is a browser tab pointed at localhost. It all works, but nothing about it feels like it belongs on a Mac.
Nativ fixes that with one opinionated move: it puts the whole workflow — chat, model management, serving, monitoring, and even hardware telemetry — inside a single native SwiftUI app. And as of DevoxxGenie 1.10.1, it's a first-class provider in the plugin, sitting right next to Ollama and LM Studio in the LLM Providers list.