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This week on AppStories, John interviews Federico about his review of the M5 Ultra Mac Studio and it local AI capabilities. On AppStories+, Federico takes listeners behind the scenes on how he tested the M5 Ultra Mac Studio. Also available on YouTube here. Sponsored By: Workbench: Remote desktop for AI agents and headless Mac minis. Free to use for 20 minutes/day. Claude – For problems worth solving — get started with Claude today. Links and Show Notes Running Local AI Models on Apple's Latest Macs M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents Apple Hardware Mac Studio Mac mini Studio Display XDR Local Models Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.8-27B DeepSeek-V4-Flash GLM-5.3-Flash Cohere Transcribe Qwen3-TTS Qwen-Image-2.1 Local Inference and Clustering oMLX exo Agent Apps and Tools Hermes Agent Hermes Agent on GitHub Open Minis Cadu OpenAI Brings Computer Use to Codex App on Windows Frontier Models and Workflow GPT-6 Astra Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Projects Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Elyx NVIDIA PC Comparison GeForce RTX 5090 Lian Li A3-mATX NVIDIA DGX Spark AppStories+ Post-Show: A preview of how Federico used local AI models to support his iOS and iPadOS 27 review. Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Social Media Federico is @viticci everywhere John is @johnvoorhees everywhere Affiliate Linking Policy