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Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

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Re: Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

#94

Post by frontsideair »

> Apple locked it behind Siri. apfel sets it free

This doesn't feel truthful, it sounds like this tool is a hack that unlocks something. If I understand it correctly, it's using the same FoundationModels framework that powers Apple Intelligence, but for CLI and OpenAI compatible REST endpoint. Which is fine, just the marketing goes hard a bit.

> Runs on Neural Engine

Also unsure if this runs on ANE, when I tried Apple Intelligence I saw that it ran on the GPU (Metal).

Re: Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

#96

Post by reaperducer » 

  apfel "How many shopping days until Christmas?"
To determine how many shopping days until Christmas, you'll need to know the current date and the date of Christmas. Christmas is on December 25th, so you can subtract the current date from this date to find the number of shopping days. If you provide the current date, I can help you calculate that.

  apfel "How many shopping days until Christmas?  Today is April 3rd."
To calculate the number of shopping days until Christmas, we first need to determine the date of Christmas this year.

Christmas in 2023 is on December 25th.

Starting from April 3rd, we calculate the days:

1. April: 30 days (from April 3rd to April 30th) 2. May: 31 days 3. June: 30 days 4. July: 31 days 5. August: 31 days 6. September: 30 days 7. October: 31 days 8. November: 30 days

Adding these up gives us:

30 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 = 252 days

Christmas is on December 25th, so we subtract 252 days from today, April 3rd:

252 - 252 = 0 days

So, there are 0 shopping days left until Christmas, but since Christmas is already past, there are no shopping days left.

Yep, feels like Siri.

Re: Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

#97

Post by furyofantares »

Looks like a nice wrapper around the APIs. Extremely oversold landing page, very marketing heavy for what it is. You can actually make nice looking landing pages that are about 10% the size of this and more straightforward, rather than some mimicry of a SaaS that's trying desperately to sell you something. Makes it easier for you to review the content for factuality too, and heck you couldn't even take ownership of some of the voice.

Hard to know what to do with this. I'm interested in the project and know others who would be, but I feel like shit after being slopped on by a landing page and I don't wish to slop on my friends by sharing it with them. I suppose the github link is indeed significantly better, I'll share that.

Re: Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

#99

Post by crena »

linsomniac wrote: post #76
als0 wrote: post #64

Is this for Tahoe only? I’m still clutching onto Sequoia

Yes, it says on that page that it uses Apple Intelligence from Tahoe. I'm also hanging onto Sequoia, though I'm ready to make the leap any time here.

MacBook Neo forced me to finally make the jump, and it turns out that I, much like the engineers at Apple, don't really care about the spit and finish anymore. Third-party applications handle everything else. Also, I was happy to find that Divvy still runs just fine under Rosetta.

Re: Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

#100

Post by reaperducer »

frontsideair wrote: post #94

> Apple locked it behind Siri. apfel sets it free This doesn't feel truthful, it sounds like this tool is a hack that unlocks something. If I understand it correctly, it's using the same FoundationModels framework that powers Apple Intelligence, but for CLI and OpenAI compatible REST endpoint. Which is fine, just the marketing goes hard a bit. > Runs on Neural Engine Also unsure if this runs on ANE, when I tried Appl…

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