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Commissario
macOS Sequoia 15.2 is out (with Apple Intelligence on those Macs that support it).
Surely by now someone has downloaded it on a M3/M4 MBP and figured out the RAM footprint of AI, now it's in UK English?
I imagine I would never use something like this, BUT, if I did I would want to make sure it doesn't slow down the rest of my machine! I have 18GB M3 Pro
Edit: Waiting....
rp2000
I imagine I would never use something like this, BUT, if I did I would want to make sure it doesn't slow down the rest of my machine! I have 18GB M3 Pro
Edit: Waiting....
rp2000
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OK, it installed and activated now. Doesn't seem to use much RAM for the basic tasks I gave it. From observing Activity Monitor it uses 1-2GB when I was simultaneously using the siri/chatgpt and image playground.
It's OK, not really majorly different from copilot on windows or chatgpt on many platforms or gemini on mobile phones.
rp2000
It's OK, not really majorly different from copilot on windows or chatgpt on many platforms or gemini on mobile phones.
rp2000
The key difference for me is that it is all processed locally. You can turn it on and off easily, and you can choose whether to hook it into ChatGPT or not.
Commissario
Anyone been able to create a Genmoji on macOS 18.2?
In my limited testing, I found the Siri experience quite poor tbh. I reckon without enabling the ChatGPT, which I did, it would be the same as old Siri! It as a bit annoying having to confirm each time you want to use ChatGPT, but maybe that's an option I missed.
I forgot to check my free space before and after enabling it. As you sort of mentioned, many of the models are stored locally. Would be interesting to know the storage footprint. I reckon a few GB, which no one will even notice.
rp2000
Soldato
Don’t believe you can create them on macOS, annoying how things don’t share the same features across OS’s.
Soldato
Same for myself, the local processing and ease of being able to turn it on & off when I want has led me to actually enabling this to give it a try
Soldato
Looks to be using around ~4.9GB storage on my system, you can view it under Settings -> General -> Storage -> macOS (click the i)
Thanks, i've not been into the storage menu on the mac for ages, looks a bit different (more detailed) unless i'm mistaken.
Mine weirdly shows it's using 2.87GB for AI, even though I disabled AI yesterday after some testing. Might be some leftover cache or something, or reserved space if i re-enable it?
No big deal. I have 512GB SSD and have never really gone over 150GB in use at a time. At the moment I am using 68GB in total.
rp2000
Commissario
I wouldn't expect just disabling AI to remove the download.
Every computer system I have used in my life, when you uninstall/remove/disable stuff those files are removed (for the most part). I have deleted loads of built in Mac apps and had the space reclaimed.
How do you think it should work?
I just rebooted and its now using 4.84GB. Weird, but no big deal.
rp2000
Commissario
I don't see any reason to, I use Alfred as an app launcher, a file finder and to run a series of commands with a couple of keystrokes. I don't see how AI will change that.
Ah, fair point. I haven't really tried out the new AI stuff.
Soldato
What tasks did you give it ?
I have chat gpt enterprise and genuinely can’t think of a use case for apple ai atm