Disclosure: This article includes links to third-party tools including Cursor. AgentPlix may earn a commission from affiliate relationships. All recommendations reflect independent testing. Local LLM on Mac: The Complete Beginner’s Guide for Apple Silicon Running a large language model entirely on your own Mac, with no internet connection, no API bills, and no data leaving your machine, used to be the kind of thing only ML researchers attempted. Then Apple shipped M1. Today, any Mac with Apple Silicon can run genuinely useful AI models locally, and the setup takes about ten minutes. This guide is your complete beginner’s roadmap to getting there. ...