A leaker, Aaron Perris, has found a new Apple Mac app called Harbor, built to turn a Mac into a private AI inference server. The details come from his post on X, which cites strings found in code. Harbor appears to be in private preview under the Claris brand, and Apple has not announced it.
Harbor runs open-weight models on Apple silicon, so data stays on the machine and nothing goes to the cloud. Models are browsed, downloaded and loaded inside the app. Two or more Macs with Thunderbolt 5 can be linked to pool their unified memory into one resource, for models too big for a single machine to hold or for more simultaneous requests. The app is said to detect the Thunderbolt 5 devices and form the cluster on its own, with no manual setup or command line.
Illustration for the Harbor app leak showing it as a Mac app
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No release date or pricing has surfaced, . Running it under Claris, Apple's subsidiary best known for FileMaker, rather than as part of Apple Intelligence is unusual and may point to a tool for developers or businesses.
About Claris
Claris International, formerly FileMaker Inc., is a software company formed in 1987 as a subsidiary of Apple and known for FileMaker. Apple gave it the source code and copyrights to MacWrite and MacPaint to separate its application software from its hardware and operating systems.
In 1988 it bought FileMaker from Nashoba Systems and sold a rebranded FileMaker II. In 1998 it dropped everything but FileMaker and renamed itself FileMaker Inc., while Apple took ClarisWorks back as AppleWorks. In 2019 the company announced at its DevCon event that it was restoring the Claris brand name.
The Mac has grown more popular this year, through budget models like the MacBook Neo and as a machine for running AI models locally on the Mac Studio and Mac mini. A public launch looks likely in the coming weeks or months, though nothing is confirmed.
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