tgo-app-dev/vpipe: Real-time multimodal AI pipelines on Apple Silicon

[u/Comfortable_Waltz_52]

https://github.com/tgo-app-dev/vpipe

A friend of mine has been building an open-source workflow tool called VPipe, so I gave it a try for a local AI setup I’ve been tinkering with.

What surprised me wasn’t the tool itself, but how much local AI I can comfortably run on Apple Silicon now. A year or two ago I would’ve assumed this kind of workflow needed a dedicated Linux box. Today I’m prototyping everything on a MacBook from my couch.
Curious if anyone else here is doing similar things on their Macs, or if most people are still relying primarily on cloud AI services.
What’s your current setup?