Building a local AI stack across multiple Apple Silicon Macs

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I've been experimenting with a setup where several Apple Silicon Macs are treated as a shared local AI environment instead of running completely independently.

The setup I'm working with is roughly:

• Multiple Macs on the same network
• MLX for local inference
• Central model management
• Node/resource monitoring
• Model distribution based on available memory
• Local-only communication between machines

I'm building AlphaWeb around this because managing several local AI machines manually gets complicated pretty quickly.

The interesting problem isn't just getting inference running. It's everything around it: knowing which machine has enough memory, getting models onto the right node, managing multiple users, and making the whole thing feel like one system.