Native Mac apps and developer tools dominate today. Kuku brings a Tauri-based markdown editor that rivals Obsidian, and NetNewsWire 7 gets the Liquid Glass treatment.
Google's Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash, DeepMind's AlphaGenome in Nature, and Figure's Helix 02 shows full-body autonomy. Local LLM scene sees BitMamba bringing ternary weights to Mamba-2.
Google introduces Agentic Vision combining visual reasoning with code execution to ground answers in visual evidence. Enables more accurate computer use and visual analysis tasks.
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AlphaGenome Published in Nature
DeepMind's AlphaGenome processes up to 1 million DNA base pairs in a single context window. Predicts thousands of genomic signals including gene expression, splicing, chromatin structure. Outperforms prior models on 25/26 benchmark tasks. Critical for rare disease, cancer, gene therapies.
Figure AI Helix 02 — Full-Body Autonomy
Most advanced humanoid robot from Figure. Unified neural network enables full-body autonomy. Completes 4-minute dishwasher task autonomously. Walks while carrying delicate objects. Three neural systems: learned movement from 1000+ hours human motion data, sensory integration, semantic reasoning.
LM Studio 0.4.0 — Major Release
Introduces llmster for headless server deployment. Parallel processing via continuous batching. New /v1/chat stateful endpoint with MCP support. Split View for concurrent chat sessions. Built-in documentation. New lms chat CLI command.
Quick hits from the local LLM scene.
BitMamba-2-1B — 1.58-bit Mamba-2 Model
Ternary weights {-1, 0, 1}. Runs on CPU at 50+ tok/s on Intel i3. 621 MB RAM for 1B model. Apache/MIT licensed.
ByteDance Stable-DiffCoder-8B
First diffusion-based coding model. 8B parameters, 8192 context. New architecture direction for code generation.
ComfyUI gets a professional 3D posing environment, NVIDIA releases FastGen for diffusion models, and world models continue to advance with open-source LingBot-World.
VNCCS Pose Studio for ComfyUI
Professional 3D posing and lighting environment running entirely within ComfyUI. Interactive viewport with bone manipulation gizmos, undo/redo. Dynamic body generator with age/gender/weight/muscle sliders. Advanced lighting control. Free, open source.
LingBot-World — Open-Source World Model
World simulator from video generation. Maintains high fidelity across diverse environments (realism, cartoon, scientific). Long-term memory with minute-level horizon. Real-time interactivity under 1s latency at 16fps. Applications in gaming, content creation, robot learning.
NVIDIA FastGen Library
Plug-and-play library for turning diffusion models into few-step generators. Supports SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux, WAN, CogVideoX.
SkyReels V3 — Multi-Subject Video
New video models with audio-guided generation (A2V), multi-subject from reference images, and V2V. 19B params.
Mac utilities, developer tools, and self-hosted solutions. Canvas-based task management, Spotify metadata for self-hosting, and a markdown-based Postman alternative.
Forma — Canvas-First Tasks & Notes
Spatial organization instead of lists. Drop ideas anywhere, move them around, group visually. 100% local, native macOS, 3MB. One-time purchase $9.99.
Self-Hosted Spotify API Clone
Self-hosted Spotify API emulator using Anna's Archive dataset. 30GB parquet files for 256M tracks with albums/artists. FastAPI app for local music tagging and discovery. Like having Spotify's metadata on your own machine.
Voiden — Markdown-Based Postman Alternative
Offline-first, git-native API tool. Requests stored as .void Markdown files. No cloud dependencies, no accounts. Works completely offline.
More Mac utilities and developer tools.
LiquidFetch — Visual System Fetch
Native macOS system info app. Graphical neofetch alternative. Free.
Boom Video — OBS Alternative for Mac
Real-time screen recording with OBS-level control. Native, no Electron. 50% off this week.
Parall v2.0 — Dock Shortcut Bundles
Launch multiple app instances with separate data. Each shortcut gets its own icon and environment.
Sonexis — System-Wide Audio Enhancer
Free audio enhancer for macOS. Real-time effects via visual chains. Preset sharing in v1.0.1.
Hexa — Menu Bar Hex Calculator
Shows hex/decimal/binary at once. Evaluates expressions live. Open source, free.
Pam — CLI/TUI for SQL Databases
Minimal SQL client for terminal. Multi-database, Vim navigation, BubbleTea UI. Export as CSV, JSON, SQL.