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Hidden Apple AI powers Home Assistant via Apfel tool
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Every Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 Tahoe ships with a hidden three-billion-parameter Apple Foundation Model running locally on the Neural Engine. A third-party MIT-licensed tool called Apfel exposes this model as an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server. One user connected it to Home Assistant for private, on-device smart home answers without any cloud API bill.
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