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    raullenchai

    To provide the fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon, enabling high-performance LLM inference with native tool calling and prompt caching.

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    At a Glance

    1Tool Listed
    1Product
    6Capabilities
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    San Francisco Bay Area, CAHeadquarters
    2025Est.
    1Employee
    Focus Areas
    Local Inference
    AI Infrastructure
    LLM Orchestration
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    Latest News
    Rapid-MLX v0.6.15 released with post-v0.6.14 batch and codex review fixes.May 6, 2026
    Introduction of the single-command merge-readiness pipeline for automated PR grading.May 4, 2026
    Markets
    • Apple Silicon users
    • Open source developers
    • AI researchers
    • Privacy-conscious AI users

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    Rapid-MLX

    Local AI Inference for Apple Silicon

    Local InferenceAI InfrastructureLLM Orchestration

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    Latest News

    05/06/2026

    Rapid-MLX v0.6.15 released with post-v0.6.14 batch and codex review fixes.

    github.com
    05/04/2026

    Introduction of the single-command merge-readiness pipeline for automated PR grading.

    github.com
    04/13/2026

    Launch of the Model-Harness Index (MHI) and Homebrew distribution support.

    github.com
    03/23/2026

    Rapid-MLX adopts Apache 2.0 license and formalizes community contribution templates.

    github.com

    Products & Services

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    Rapid-MLX
    2026-03-21

    A high-performance local AI inference engine optimized for Apple Silicon, featuring 17 tool parsers, prompt caching, and reasoning separation.

    Market Position

    2-4x faster than Ollama and llama.cpp on Apple Silicon. Only engine supporting day-0 features for MoE models like DeepSeek V4 Flash on Mac.

    Leadership

    Founders

    RC

    Raullen Chai

    Ph.D. in Encryption from University of Waterloo. Former Lead of Crypto R&D and Engineering Security at Uber. Former engineer at Google and Oracle. Co-founder and CEO of IoTeX/MachineFi Lab.

    Executive Team

    RC

    Raullen Chai

    Founder and Lead Developer

    Cybersecurity and cryptography expert, CEO of IoTeX.

    Founding Story

    Started to address the performance gap of existing local LLM engines like Ollama on Apple Silicon by leveraging the MLX framework for native Metal compute kernels.

    Business Model

    Revenue
    Not reported (Open-source project).

    Revenue Model

    Open-source project (Apache 2.0). No formal revenue model disclosed for the software itself.

    Pricing Tiers

    Open Source
    Free

    Available on GitHub and PyPI.

    N/A

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • Apple Silicon users
    • Open source developers
    • AI researchers
    • Privacy-conscious AI users
    Use Cases
    • Local LLM serving for developers
    • AI agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Aider)
    • Private AI infrastructure
    • Apple Silicon performance benchmarking
    Notable Customers
    • Cursor
    • Claude Code
    • Aider
    • PydanticAI

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    San Francisco Bay Area, CA
    Founded
    2025
    Entity Type
    Open Source Project
    Employees
    1
    Total Funding
    0
    Office Locations
    Remote

    History & Milestones

    March 21, 2026

    Project officially renamed to 'rapid-mlx' on PyPI with version 0.3.2.

    April 13, 2026

    Released Model-Harness Index (MHI) benchmark and one-liner installer.

    May 4, 2026

    Launched single-command merge-readiness pipeline for PR validation.

    May 6, 2026

    Released version 0.6.15 with enhanced model support and codex review fixes.

    Dec 2025

    Initial development and implementation of paged KV cache architecture.

    Key Capabilities

    6
    17+ Tool Parsers
    Prompt Cache (KV + DeltaNet)
    Reasoning Separation (Qwen3, DeepSeek-R1)
    Smart Cloud Routing
    Multimodal Support (Vision, Audio)
    Continuous Batching

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • OpenAI API
    • Anthropic API
    • LangChain
    • PydanticAI
    • Homebrew
    • PyPI

    Key Partnerships

    MLX Community
    Hugging Face

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    Website
    pypi.org/project/rapid-mlx
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    raullenchai

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    raullenchai focuses on these topics:

    Local Inference(1)
    AI Infrastructure(1)
    LLM Orchestration(1)
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