在01 · Local
On your device, not in a datacenter.
Weights, memory, and compute all sit on your Mac. Nothing leaves unless you explicitly send it. There is no cloud account behind the curtain.
About · MingLLM·明míng — bright, clear, intelligent
A personal
intelligence, kept close.
MingLLM is a personal superintelligence that lives on your Mac. Voice is the front door. The browser, your inbox, your calendar, and the documents you already have open are the rooms it walks through. There is no cloud account behind it. There is no telemetry pipe running back to us. The model is on your machine, and the memory it keeps is yours.
We started this because we wanted an assistant that didn't require us to mail our lives to a stranger to use. What follows is the story of how it works — six movements, one shape.
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I·在zai · presence·Presence
An intelligence that stands with you.
Voice in. Action out. No cloud, no tenants, no telemetry — a personal superintelligence that lives on your machine and waits for the moment you need it. The first AI that doesn't phone home.
Local by default.
- Runtime
- On-device
- Network
- Opt-in only
- Identity
- You
II·行kō · turn·Turn
Spoken intent becomes action.
Say the thing. MingLLM moves — mail, calendar, the documents open in front of you. Voice sits at the front; a real agent works behind it. Words become work without the dance of pasting and re-explaining.
Voice as the primary surface.
- Latency
- <240 ms
- Surfaces
- Mail · Calendar · Files
- Loop
- Listen → act
III·観kan · context·Context
It reads what you read.
Across every tab, every page, every paper. Parallel attention held in a single place — so answers are grounded in what's actually in front of you, not in a frozen snapshot of last year's web.
Grounded, never guessed.
- Window
- 1M tokens
- Recall
- Tab-aware
- Sources
- Cited inline
IV·明mei · understanding·Understanding
It knows what you mean.
Not just what you said. MingLLM keeps the shape of your week, your project, the way you phrase things — and lets that context bend every answer toward the version that lands for you, not for a stranger.
Memory that stays.
- Memory
- Personal · local
- Drift
- Continual fine-tune
- Export
- Anytime
V·証shō · proof·Clarity
Every step is visible.
No silent background automation. Each action MingLLM takes leaves a legible trail — what it read, what it changed, why it chose to. Reviewable, reversible, yours to check before, during, and after.
No black boxes.
- Trace
- Step-level
- Undo
- Always available
- Edits
- Diffed live
VI·円en · sovereignty·Sovereignty
Local by default. Yours by design.
The model runs on your device. Memory stays on your device. What reaches the network reaches it because you allowed it — not because we defaulted you into it. The intelligence belongs to the person it works for.
You own the model.
- Weights
- On-device
- Telemetry
- None
- License
- Personal
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01 — Movement
Six movements. One shape.
What we believe·主義
Four principles. No exceptions.
声02 · Voice
Voice is the surface, not a feature.
MingLLM is built around speaking — interrupt-tolerant, low-latency, and aware of who you are. Typing is the fallback, not the design center.
憶03 · Memory
Memory that learns the shape of you.
Your projects, your phrasing, your week. MingLLM holds context that survives between sessions and bends every answer toward the version you actually need.
証04 · Receipts
Every action leaves a legible trail.
What it read. What it changed. Why it chose to. Each step is a receipt — reviewable while it happens, reversible after the fact, never silent.
Origins
Why we built it
on your machine.
The most useful AI tools today require you to mail your private life to a stranger. Your messages, your code, your calendar, your half-formed ideas. We thought the right shape was simpler: the model belongs to the person it works for.
MingLLM is built by a small team in San Francisco. We come from ML research, systems software, and macOS internals. We're making the assistant we wanted ourselves.
2025 · Spring
First spark
A handful of researchers tired of pasting their lives into someone else's model started prototyping a local agent that could actually act inside a Mac.
2025 · Summer
明 — the name
Ming (明) means bright, clear, intelligent — the sun and moon together. The naming choice was the first design decision: clarity, not cleverness.
2025 · Autumn
Voice loop
Sub-300ms streaming voice on-device. The first time you could finish a sentence and watch the calendar fill itself in before you took a breath.
2026 · Now
Quiet alpha
Running daily on the team's machines. Mail, calendar, browser, files. We are letting a small circle of friends in next.
「明」
Bright. Clear. Intelligent. Private. Ours.
An intelligence that doesn't ask you to give yourself away to use it.
— The MingLLM team
What comes next
A single system.
Many surfaces.
Voice, browser, research, proof. MingLLM shows up where you work — one intelligence, many ways in. Jarvis on the desktop. Tensor in the browser. Receipts everywhere it acts.