YES! Someone reverse-engineered Apple's Neural Engine and trained a neural network on it. Apple never allowed this. ANE is inference-only. No public API, no docs. They cracked it open anyway. Why it matters: • M4 ANE = 6.6 TFLOPS/W vs 0.08 for an A100 (80× more efficient) • "38 TOPS" is a lie - real throughput is 19 TFLOPS FP16 • Your Mac mini has this chip sitting mostly idle Translation: local AI inference that's faster AND uses almost no power. Still early research but the door is now open. → #AI #MachineLearning #AppleSilicon #LocalAI #OpenSource #ANE #CoreML #AppleSilicon #NPU #KCORES