MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
THE SO WHAT
MacPaw bringing Liquid AI’s on-device models into its app store is a small but clear move toward local-first AI — inference as a platform primitive, not a cloud call. If you ship desktop software, you should be scoping which AI features can run entirely on-device to cut latency, cost, and privacy friction.
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