Observed arrival · 2026-11-15
Astronomical: local models past your Mac’s memory ceiling
A Mac app that runs language and other models locally, streaming selected experts from SSD when a model exceeds the memory ceiling you set.
- For
- Apple-silicon Mac users running local models
- Worth noticing
- A captured Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-oQ4e-mtp run used an 11 GB ceiling for a 21.61 GB model; the page says this is not a throughput claim.
Field notes
The app has a menu-bar interface, a local Observatory console, and a loopback API; its CLI can start Claude, Codex, or OpenCode for a session without changing the agent’s settings. Models can be downloaded from a curated public Library, where the page says payloads are verified before discovery. The site also lists image generation, speech, embeddings, and vision, and cautions that performance varies with model, context, storage, and the Mac’s available memory.
Observed signals
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