Yeah, any Mac system specced with a decent amount of RAM since the M1 will run LLMs locally very well. And that’s exactly how the built-in Apple Intelligence service works: when enabled, it downloads a smallish local model. Since all Macs since the M1 have very fast memory available to the integrated GPU, they’re very good at AI.

The article kinda sucks at explaining how NPUs aren’t really even needed, they just have potential to make things more efficient in the future rather than depending on the power consumption involved with running your GPU.