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Vesta is a comprehensive AI chat assistant for macOS, designed to bring advanced AI capabilities directly to your Apple Silicon Mac. It uniquely supports five simultaneous AI backends—Apple Intelligence, MLX, llama.cpp, HuggingFace Inference API, and OpenAI-compatible API servers—allowing for seamless runtime switching and a wide array of AI interactions. Beyond text chat, Vesta offers multi-modal features including vision understanding, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, image generation, and video generation. It also integrates a full MCP server for programmatic control and an AI Sidekick, transforming your Mac into a powerful hub for AI exploration and development.

Características Principales

• 59 GitHub stars
• Multi-modal capabilities: Vision, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Image and Video Generation
• Full MCP server with 41+ tools for programmatic control and Agentic AI Sidekick
• Five simultaneous AI backends (Apple Intelligence, MLX, llama.cpp, HuggingFace, External AI)
• HuggingFace Explorer for cloud inference, model browsing, and media generation
• On-device inference optimized for Apple Silicon with WhisperKit, MLX, and llama.cpp

Casos de Uso

• Running and comparing multiple local and cloud-based AI models on a single macOS application
• Exploring advanced multi-modal AI features like image description, voice interaction, and media generation
• Developing and testing AI applications with local LLMs and vision models
• Programmatic control and automation of AI workflows through the MCP server and AI Sidekick integration