On the Apple @ Work podcast, Osaurus co-founder and CEO Terence Pae talks about running company AI on the Mac instead of shipping everything to the cloud, 9to5Mac reports. Osaurus is a free, Mac-first AI harness.
What it is
A May TechCrunch profile is still the clearest write-up of the product: an open-source, Apple-only LLM server that can talk to local models or cloud providers, while keeping files, memory and tools on your own hardware. It can run in a hardware-isolated sandbox, speaks MCP, and ships plugins for Mail, Calendar, files and the browser. Local models want a lot of RAM.
The podcast pitch is the business case: if the work is sensitive, maybe it shouldn’t leave the building.
My take
I’m with the “keep it local when you can” crowd. Just remember this write-up is a founder interview, not a hands-on from me.
Review before you install: read the release notes yourself, back up your config, and try new versions somewhere you can afford to break first.
God Bless, and Use the Source!
