Whoever thought that Apple wasn’t getting into the AI game was completely wrong. While it might have taken Apple a bit to get into Apple Intelligence, after a false start, there’s nothing slowing Apple down right now. Unlike other companies that are focused more on AI for software, Apple knows it makes the best hardware for AI, whether it’s a Mac Studio or an iPhone.
Apple’s FileMaker subsidiary, Claris, is testing a new app called Harbor, a Mac app that turns Apple Silicon computers into private AI servers. Apple mistakenly posted the app on the App Store early, then took it down. But MacRumors’ Analyst, Aaron P was able to grab some screenshots of it before it was taken down.
Harbor will let your Mac run open-weight AI models, whose trained parameters are publicly available for anyone to download and host, effectively turning it into your own private AI server. It does all of this while keeping your data requests on your hardware, in line with Apple’s privacy principles.
With Harbor, you can daisy-chain multiple Macs
Perhaps the bigger trick for this app is that you can daisy-chain multiple Macs together. By plugging in two or more Thunderbolt 5-compatible Macs, Harbor can pool their unified memory. This allows you to unlock substantially faster local processing, especially compared to a single Mac’s CPU and memory capacity.
Apple has also added RDMA (remote direct memory access), which allows one Mac to read another’s memory directly over Thunderbolt 5 in macOS Tahoe 26.2. This can really speed up all of your AI tasks.
The page was taken down pretty quickly, which likely means that someone pressed “publish” way before the app was ready. But since it had a full listing, screenshots, and everything else, it’s likely coming soon. Perhaps before the end of the year.
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