
Pico AI Server LLM VLM MLX 12+
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Starling Protocol Inc
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- Free
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Description
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
What’s New
Version 1.2.13
Bug fix: Jan v1 bf16 (thanks Ivan!)
Ratings and Reviews
Great app for starting with LLMs, Not easy, but great
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
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
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
App Privacy
The developer, Starling Protocol Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Starling Protocol, Inc
- Size
- 22 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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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
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
- Copyright
- © 2025 Starling Protocol, Inc
- Price
- Free