Apple

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October 2025

Apple
Products & Apps

M5 chip

Apple announces M5 chip with double the AI performance

Apple unveiled the M5 chip, claiming roughly double the AI performance of the previous generation for Apple Silicon. For local-model enthusiasts on the show, it means more on-device headroom for running and fine-tuning models on Macs.

September 2025

Apple
New ModelsOpen weights

FastVLM-7B

Apple's FastVLM-7B lands with a speed-first vision encoder, 85x faster TTFT

Apple released FastVLM-7B, a vision-language model built around a speed-first vision encoder that delivers up to 85x faster time-to-first-token than peer VLMs. Quantized variants (7B-int4, 1.5B-int8) on Hugging Face make it practical for on-device and real-time vision use, anchoring the show's fast-VLM discussion.