# MTPLX (open-source AI desktop app)

> MTPLX is a free, open-source AI desktop app for macOS. The fastest way to run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Qwen 3.8 27B and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Mac: 125 tok/s in OpenCode on an M5 Max, and a 27B model on 16 GB Macs. It has 2,536 GitHub stars and is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

MTPLX is a native Mac app and a command line that runs local language models on Apple Silicon with the model's own multi-token prediction (MTP) heads. It runs Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, the 125B mixture of experts, Qwen 3.8 27B and Prism ML's Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, plus Qwen 3.6, Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4. The model drafts several tokens ahead of itself, one batched forward pass verifies the draft, and tokens are committed through exact rejection sampling with residual correction.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/youssofal/MTPLX |
| Platforms | macOS |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 2,536 |
| License | Apache-2.0 (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Python |
| Website | https://mtplx.com |
| Official | no |
| Category | AI desktop apps |
| Latest release | v2.12.2 (Oct 3, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 3, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/youssofal/MTPLX/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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