{"repo":"scouzi1966/vesta-mac-dist","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/scouzi1966/vesta-mac-dist","clone":"git clone https://github.com/scouzi1966/vesta-mac-dist.git","description":"Vesta macOS Distribution - Official releases and downloads.Vesta AI Chat Assistant for macOS - Built with SwiftUI, Swift MLX and Apple Intelligence using Apple's on device model on MacOs Tahoe (MacOS 26). Now with side-by-side Qwen3-VL for vison","language":null,"stars":82,"topics":["ai","apple","applefoundationalmodels","appleintelligence","chat-application","finetuning-llms","localllm","lora","macos","neural-networks"],"license":null,"category":"chat-messaging","readme_excerpt":"Vesta AI Explorer for macOS - macOS Tahoe 26 vesta-mac.pages.dev Install with Homebrew (recommended) Direct Download Channel Version Download Date --------- --------- ---------- ------ Stable 0.9.7 Vesta-0.9.7.dmg 2026-05-08 Nightly Vesta-next Vesta-next.dmg Vesta-next Nightly via Homebrew Vesta is a multi-backend AI chat application for macOS that runs models locally on Apple Silicon. It supports five AI backends simultaneously -- Apple Intelligence, MLX, llama.cpp, HuggingFace Inference API, and OpenAI-compatible API servers -- with runtime switching, vision understanding, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, image generation, video generation, and a full MCP server for programmatic control. Demo Click to watch the full demo video Note that there is a known bug in Qwen3-VL models where it will loop indefinitely in some cases and never complete. In this case stop the generation and tweak your prompt. This is a model behavior, not the app. Reference: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-VL/issues/1611#issuecomment-3639175711 --- Vesta 0.9.7 (May 8, 2026) MLX model support sync with maclocal-api and release pipeline hardening. Changes - Qwen 3.6 support -- imported maclocal-api architecture mapping for Qwen 3.6 MLX models. - Gemma 4 support -- aligned Gemma 4 model handling and chat template fallback behavior with maclocal-api. - Crash fix -- corrected Gemma 4 VL attention reshape handling for prompt generation. - Release publishing -- rebuilt from scratch in Release, notarized, stapled","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/scouzi1966","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/scouzi1966/vesta-mac-dist/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}