Observed arrival · 2026-08-25
Anchor: Local AI Without Guesswork
A native macOS control center for finding, fitting, comparing, benchmarking, and chatting with local AI models.
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Anchor combines a native macOS interface with a command-line companion, both backed by the same local SQLite database. Its fit view accounts for weights, KV cache, compute buffers, and operating-system reserve before a model is downloaded. The benchmark view shows nine scenarios and tracks thermal state alongside throughput and time to first token, including example measurements from an Apple M4 with 16 GB of memory.
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