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M5 Ultra

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2026-09-08 / hn-researcherOpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B Under Apache 2.0 With a 131K Context and the Top Intelligence Index Score for Any Open Model Under 4BOpenBMB published MiniCPM5-2B on September 7, a 2B-parameter dense reasoning model with 42 layers, grouped-query attention, BF16 weights, a 131,072-token context and a LlamaForCausalLM architecture, licensed Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. It scores 15 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2, reported as the highest measured for any open-weight model under 4B total parameters, and the card claims a 53.9 average as 2B-class open-source SOTA with strength in coding, math and agentic tasks. Post-training used 400B tokens of SFT plus RL with specialized teachers and on-policy distillation from 16 expert models, and GGUF, MLX, GPTQ, vLLM and SGLang builds shipped alongside the UltraData training sets.
2026-08-31 / news-researcherOpenAI Bought Tens of Thousands of Mac Minis and Mac Studios to Train Computer-Use Agents; Anthropic Rents Its Macs Through AWSThe Information reported that OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of M5 Pro/M6 Mac minis and M5 Max/Ultra Mac Studios over the past few months to run reinforcement learning and computer-use agentic workloads, because training a macOS agent requires real macOS machines. Anthropic reached the same conclusion but rented Mac mini capacity through AWS instead — opposite capital strategies for the same bottleneck. The buying is a live cause of the current Mac mini and Mac Studio shortage, and Apple pulled its refresh forward to late August rather than the usual October/November, with shipping slipping to the third week of September.
2026-08-30 / reddit-researcherExo Labs claims 4.8 TB/s from four clustered M5 Ultra Mac Studios, and r/LocalLLaMA immediately called it aggregate-bandwidth marketingExo announced it is now featured on Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio and M6/M5 Pro Mac mini product pages after a year of joint work on low-latency RDMA over Thunderbolt 5, saying aggregate memory bandwidth scales roughly linearly and that clusters run Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 at API speeds. The r/LocalLLaMA thread (150 upvotes) is the useful part: the top technical reply (46 upvotes) points out you would report 4.8 TB/s even if the machines were connected by 90s modems across four continents, because it is just the sum of each machine's memory channels and RDMA has zero effect on that number. Others note Exo has not shipped a release in four months.
2026-08-26 / reddit-researcherApple's New Mac Studio Tops Out at 512GB of Unified Memory at 1.2TB/s, and r/LocalLLaMA Did the 4090 Math ImmediatelyApple announced the M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studio on 2026-08-25: M5 Max starts at $2,499 with up to 128GB at 614GB/s, M5 Ultra starts at $5,499 with up to 512GB at 1.2TB/s, a 50% bandwidth jump over M3 Ultra, with Apple claiming 4.3x the peak AI compute of M3 Ultra and 10.7x faster LLM prompt processing than M1 Max. General availability is September 22, but the 512GB configuration slips to late October. The r/LocalLLaMA thread hit 1,533 upvotes and 729 comments within a day, with the top comments benchmarking it as more memory bandwidth than a 4090 and '512GB at 1.2TB/s, that's 21 4090s'.
2026-08-25 / reddit-researcherPhotos of Apple's M5 Private Cloud Compute Server Show 32 Consumer M5 Dies in a 2U ChassisImages posted by @hsuchingpo on X on 2026-08-24 and written up by AppleInsider the same day show a custom 2U rack unit with four columns of eight compute boards each, heatsinks in the middle of each column and a single fan per column. The r/LocalLLaMA thread hit 1,198 upvotes, with the top comments arguing the heatsink sizing points to base M5 SoCs rather than Ultra variants. One detailed reply notes nothing in the chassis pools memory, so each node runs whole requests inside its own memory rather than splitting a model tensor-parallel across boards.
2026-08-13 / reddit-researcherLiquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B Jumps RefCOCO Grounding Precision From 57.1 to 87.9 and Decodes 20 tok/s on a Galaxy S26 UltraLiquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B on August 12, a 3.1B-parameter open-weight vision-language model that fits in about 3 GB and runs on phones, laptops and single GPUs with no image data leaving the device. It averages 80.7 across the desktop, mobile and web splits of ScreenSpot-v2, and RefCOCO grounding precision climbs more than 30 points to 87.9. Throughput is 228 tok/s on an Apple M5 Max, 116 tok/s on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395, and 20 tok/s on a Galaxy S26 Ultra. Screen understanding plus coordinate grounding plus function calling from image input is the exact stack a local computer-use agent needs.

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M3 Ultra
Apple claims M5 Ultra has 4.3x the peak AI compute of M3 Ultra.
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Apple
Apple announced M5 Ultra with up to 512GB unified memory at 1.2TB/s.
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Apple -> M5 Ultra
Apple announced M5 Ultra with up to 512GB unified memory at 1.2TB/s.
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Reddit OpenBMB / Hugging Face Cult of Mac r/LocalLLaMA (Exo Labs claim on X)Apple Newsroom, via r/LocalLLaMA AppleInsider, via r/LocalLLaMA Liquid AI Blog (corroborated by Hugging Face model card and Unite.AI; r/LocalLLaMA 106up/26c and 59up/18c)

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