Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

Apple.com advertising a Mac Mini:

> Built for Apple Intelligence.

> 16-core Neural Engine

These Xcode release notes:

> Claude in Xcode is now available in the Intelligence settings panel, allowing users to seamlessly add their existing paid Claude account to Xcode and start using Claude Sonnet 4

All that dedicated silicon taking up space on their SoC and yet you still have to input your credit card in order to use their IDE. Come on...

To run a model locally, they would need to release the weights to the public and their competitors. Those are flagship models.

They would also need to shrink them way down to even fit. And even then, generating tokens on an apple neural chip would be waaaaaay slower than an HTTP request to a monster GPU in the sky. Local llms in my experience are either painfully dumb or painfully slow.