Thank you for the discussion folks, I’ll try out Llama.cpp and report back.

I also saw the Neural Engine Stuff hasn’t been merged into main kernel yet but it’s available as a separate out of tree patch. Hopefully merging that will help with more model support? (Pure guesswork)

I also saw that PCL stuff isn’t ready yet and u/marcan42 said it’s WIP that also might be helpful in getting better model support because read somewhere that metal isn’t going to be a part of the Asahi kernel ever(?)

I’m no expert at any of this but hopefully we’ll be able to run some sort of GPTs locally someday.

Good luck.

Have you tried searx? There’s a lot of open source instances. If you want to use Google with some privacy there’s also whoogle. Tbh I haven’t tried any, just read about them. Hope this helps!