Pico AI Server and Pico AI Studio

Anthropic has given us a "dedicated monthly credit" Which, in effect, slashes AFK usage limits of Claude Code by ~5-20X Here's how it affects you:

How fast you ask? About 109 tokens per second on an M1 Max MacBook Pro fast.

Today we’re announcing Ternary Bonsai: Top intelligence at 1.58 bits Using ternary weights {-1, 0, +1}, we built a family of models that are 9x smaller than their 16-bit counterparts while outperforming most models in their respective parameter classes on standard benchmarks. We’re open-sourcing the models under the Apache 2.0 license in three sizes: 8B (1.75 GB), 4B (0.86 GB), and 1.7B (0.37 GB).

Apple Silicon + Gemma 4 fans: this is for you. Pico AI Server now supports continuous batching with MLX-Swift. 43 tok/s on 1 stream. 26 tok/s per stream on 2 concurrent streams. That’s 52 tok/s total. a 21% throughput gain on a six-year-old MacBook Pro M1 Max!

Apple Silicon + Gemma 4 fans: this is for you. Pico AI Server now supports continuous batching with MLX-Swift. 43 tok/s on 1 stream. 26 tok/s per stream on 2 concurrent streams. That’s 52 tok/s total. a 21% throughput gain on a six-year-old MacBook Pro M1 Max!