This week on AppStories, John interviews Federico about his review of the M5 Ultra Mac Studio and it local AI capabilities.

On AppStories+, Federico takes listeners behind the scenes on how he tested the M5 Ultra Mac Studio.

Also available on YouTube here.

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Running Local AI Models on Apple's Latest Macs

Apple Hardware

Local Models

Local Inference and Clustering

Agent Apps and Tools

Frontier Models and Workflow

NVIDIA PC Comparison

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A preview of how Federico used local AI models to support his iOS and iPadOS 27 review.

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