Core AI is Apple's on-device ML runtime in iOS 27 / macOS 27 and the successor to Core ML: PyTorch models are exported with Apple's coreai-torch (LLMs: coreai.llm.export) into .aimodel bundles that run on the GPU or the Neural Engine, e.g. Qwen3-8B 4-bit decodes at 94 tok/s on an M4 Max GPU, MLX 90 under the same protocol (apple-silicon-llm-bench, macOS 27 beta 26A5353q, 2026-06-11).

This model has no row on DeviceMark, the on-device LLM leaderboard.

GLM-4.7-Flash — Core AI (gather_qmm kernel, 2.6× faster)

Apple Core AI (.aimodel) conversion of zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash (text decoder): MLA attention + a 64-expert top-4 sparse MoE (+ non-gated shared expert). ~30B total / ~3B active per token — a strong local coder.

Part of the community Core AI model zoo: https://github.com/john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo (full card: zoo/glm-4.7-flash.md).

Use it

New to Core AI? Start with CoreAIKit 0.7.3. Follow its requirements and first-run steps for qwen3-0.6b, then open the same release's ChatDemo. The README records the tested OS/SDK and download size; model and device coverage is stated per example.

⚡ One line — run the kit's task op on this model (import CoreAIOps; no session, no model plumbing, downloads on first use):

let tldr = try await CoreAI.summarize(text, options: .model("glm-4.7-flash"))

Every op, one shape — Cookbook.

▶️ Run it (source) — the ChatDemo runner (GUI + CLI, one app for every chat model in the catalog):

git clone --branch 0.7.3 --depth 1 https://github.com/john-rocky/coreai-kit
export DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode-27.0.0-RC.app/Contents/Developer
open -a /Applications/Xcode-27.0.0-RC.app coreai-kit/Examples/ChatDemo/ChatDemo.xcodeproj
# → Run, then pick "GLM-4.7-Flash (MoE+MLA)" in the model picker

# agents / headless (macOS):
cd coreai-kit/Examples/ChatDemo
swift run -c release chat-cli --model glm-4.7-flash --prompt "What can you do, offline?"

Use Xcode build 27A266a from the release's .xcode-pin; adjust the app path if your installation is named differently.

💻 Build with it — complete; the glue is kit API, copy-paste runs:

import CoreAIKit

let id = "glm-4.7-flash"
let chat: ChatSession
if id == "qwen3-0.6b" {
    // Freeze the release starter; other selections retain the live catalog's
    // model-specific dispatch (including paired Gemma bundles).
    guard let model = ModelCatalog.builtin.entry(id: id)?.modelID else {
        throw CoreAIKitError.modelNotAvailableOnPlatform(id: id)
    }
    chat = try await ChatSession(model: model)
} else {
    chat = try await ChatSession(catalog: "glm-4.7-flash")
}
let reply = try await chat.respond(to: prompt)
// reply: the answer, generated fully on-device

When Apple's FoundationModels built-in model isn't enough, keep your session code and swap the model — one line. CoreAIKit's KitLanguageModel plugs supported chat bundles into the system LanguageModelSession. Tool calling depends on the model's dialect; guided generation also requires a compatible sequential engine. Check the linked support matrix before using either capability.

The take-home is Examples/ChatDemo/Sources/QuickStart.swift — this exact code as one typed function, no UI; the CLI is an argument shell over it, and the GUI drives the same ChatSession across turns for its transcript. Multi-turn? Hold the ChatSession and call respond(to:) per turn — it keeps the conversation history; streamResponse(to:) yields tokens as they decode.

Integration checklist

• SPM: https://github.com/john-rocky/coreai-kit (exact 0.7.3) → product CoreAIKit
• Info.plist: none needed
• Entitlements: none needed (macOS)
• First run downloads the model — ~32,140 MB (Mac) — then it loads from the local cache (Application Support; progress via the downloadProgress callback)
• Measure in Release — Debug is ~3× slower on per-token host work

The gather_qmm kernel — 20.3 → 52.4 tok/s (2.6×)

Apple's GatherMM reads all 64 experts' weights every token; a custom coreai_torch.TorchMetalKernel reads only the 4 routed experts (4/64) → decode runs at active-param bandwidth: 52.4 tok/s, 2.6× (the biggest relative gain of the zoo's three MoE gather ports — a 16× over-read removed).

Quality is clean and unchanged. The kernel reads the sym8 scheme = the same symmetric-linear int8 (per-K-block-32) recipe the standard int8 bundle uses, via a bit-exact gather: 0 introduced flips / 18 vs fp16. Pure speed win at the same quality.

Mac-only (30 GB int8). Remaining speed lever = absorbed-MLA (GLM runs full MLA on all 47 layers).

Run

COREAI_CHUNK_THRESHOLD=1 llm-benchmark --model gpu-pipelined/glm_4_7_flash_decode_sym8_gather -p 128 -g 256 -n 3

Convert your own with conversion/export_glm47_moe_metal_decode_pipelined.py.

License

MIT (upstream GLM license). Conversion + gather_qmm kernel: community.

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More models in this format: Core AI Model Zoo — 75 models, each with the recipe that produced it.

Want a different model on-device? Open a request — free, open weights only; the export and its measured numbers get published publicly.