splash
A local inference engine for Apple silicon, built around the model.
Details
- External ID
- 1376380844
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- splash
- Website domain
- inco.ai
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 610
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9912887522418652
- Tags
- apple-silicon, coding-agents, llm-inference, macos, metal, speculative-decoding
- Fetched at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ML inference and model optimization
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local inference engine for apple silicon
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing a custom Apple Silicon LLM inference engine with shape-specific fused Metal/MPS kernels, speculative decoding, and custom memory layout requires elite systems and GPU programming expertise.
What it would actually take: Built using Metal Shading Language (MSL), C++/Swift, and Apple's Unified Memory APIs with custom GPU memory allocators and fused transformer kernels. The hard part is hand-tuning matrix multiplication and attention kernels to rival or beat Apple's MLX and llama.cpp while implementing specialized speculative draft models for specific architectures.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #25 of 2284 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
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- IronMule · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Qwen Scribe · hn · 2026-07-29 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- laya-apple · github · 2026-09-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- zlaya · github · 2026-09-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- systemANE · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Reame · hn · 2026-07-11 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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