Lightning fast local AI server for home and office. Built on MLX, powered by the latest DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and Phi models.
Pico turns your Mac into a private local AI server.
Run powerful language and vision models on your own machine, chat with them in Pico’s built-in web interface, use them from your favorite apps, and access them across your local network. No cloud required.
Private by design and free to get started, Pico gives you a built-in web interface, no usage caps, and access to 500+ language and vision models. Download a model, start it locally, and connect your tools, automations, and apps with MCP, local APIs, and function calling.
Use Pico to build private assistants, chat with local models, prototype AI features, power self-hosted workflows, or give your devices access to models running on your Mac.
Your models. Your machine. Your network.
Private. Offline-capable. No cloud required.
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Great app for starting with LLMs, Not easy, but great
Car1_p
Overall this is an amazing app the wraps up a lot of tricky installs into one and handles it rather well. It’s not going to do everything for you but this will save you a lot of time. You might out grow it, but it’s so amazing for what it is.
Developer Response
Hi Car1_p,Thank you for taking the time to review Pico. I appreciate it. If you haven’t already, please join our Discord and let us know what features you’d like to see. We’d love for Pico to grow with your needs.
Great LLM server for macOS
vstinebaker
Pico AI Server is a great tool for experimenting with Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on your Mac. Perhaps the best aspect of this application is the developer; super responsive and constantly improving the app.
Faster than ollama
Yi !!
Great to see that this is built on top of MLX so really optimized for MacOS
Developer Response
Thanks Yi, really appreciate it. If you haven’t already, please join our Discord server and let me know if you have any feature requests or ideas
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Hunter DG
This is so easy….. THANK YOU!
Developer Response
You’re welcome! Hope you still enjoy it
Bug fixes
Version 1.4.23
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