MacPaw and Liquid AI partner on local AI stack for Mac

On 5 August 2026, MacPaw and Liquid AI announced a strategic, long-term partnership to build a local AI stack for the Mac.

The collaboration combines three components: Liquid AI's Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) tuned for macOS on-device inference, MacPaw's Elix inference system built on Apple silicon (MLX), and Mnemos , a persistent memory layer enabling context retention across interactions. The first product to use the stack is Eney , MacPaw's AI assistant, which will gain deeply on-device reasoning, native macOS task execution, and long-term conversational memory.

MacPaw plans to extend the stack beyond Eney to its broader product ecosystem, including Setapp , its app store. The company intends to expose Elix and Mnemos to third-party developers as a local AI infrastructure layer, offering on-device inference alongside access to external cloud models. Liquid AI's models are already deployed at companies including Mercedes-Benz, Insilico Medicine, and Shopify.

The upgraded, local-first version of Eney is expected later in 2026.



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