Pico AI Server LLM VLM MLX
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Lightning fast private LLM and VLM server for home and office. Built on MLX, powered by the latest DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and Phi models.
Private LLM and VLM in 60 seconds. Turn any Apple-silicon Mac into a zero-setup, enterprise-ready AI server. One download gives your team a web chat interface, and 300 + free state-of-the-art open-source models—no cloud, no command line.
Why Pico:
- Everything included
Built-in web UI and easy settings. No extra installs.
- Zero configuration
Launch once; Pico auto-discovers GPUs, grabs starter models, and shares itself on your local network.
- 60-second time-to-value
First response before your coffee cools.
- Made for teams
Multi-user seats and logs
- Privacy & compliance
Data never leaves your Mac. Works fully offline—ideal for GDPR, and on-prem mandates.
- Apple-silicon speed
MLX acceleration delivers up to 3× faster tokens than generic builds.
- Standards-ready APIs
Ollama-style and OpenAI-compatible endpoints drop straight into existing apps.
- Swap-and-go models
Explore Llama, Gemma, DeepSeek, and hundreds more, or load your own fine-tuned models.
Built for the places the cloud can’t go
Healthcare, legal suites, trading floors—where privacy or latency rule out SaaS, Pico brings top-tier AI to the hardware you already own.
Developers welcome
Use your favorite SDK. Stream responses, function-call, an more—no terminal required.
Requirements
Apple-silicon Mac (M1, M2, M3)• 16 GB RAM minimum (32 GB+ recommended for larger models)
No sign-ups. No subscriptions. No cloud.
Download Pico AI Server today and give every desk on your network a fast, private, endlessly flexible AI—boxed inside your Mac.
• Pico AI Homelab supports over 300 state-of-the-art LLM and VLM models, such as:
• OpenAI GPT-oss
• Google Gemma 3
• Google Gemma 3n
• DeepSeek R1
• Meta Llama
• Alibaba Qwen 3
• Alibaba QwQ
• XBai o4
• Polaris
• Microsoft Phi 4
• Microsoft BitNet
• Mistral
• Devstral
• Baichuan M1
• EXAONE
• GLM 4.5
• DeepHermes
• Granite Code
• Hugging Face SmolLM
• Hugging Face SmolVLM
• Jan nano
…And many more
• Pico AI Homelab supports 23 embedding models, such as:
• BERT
• RoBERTa
• XLM-RoBERTa
• CLIP
• Word2Vec
• Model2Vec
• Static
• Compatible with your existing chat app, including:
• Open WebUI
• Apollo AI
• Bolt AI
• IntelliBar
• Msty
• Ollamac
• MindMac
• Enchanted
• Kerling
• LibreChat
• Hollama
• Ollama-SwiftUI
• Witsy
• Reactor AI
... And many more
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- Bug fixes
- Improved WebUI interface
- Show country of origin in model settings view
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Information
- Seller
- Starling Protocol, Inc
- Size
- 103.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
- Copyright
- © 2025 Starling Protocol, Inc