MacPaw and Liquid AI announced a long-term partnership on August 5, 2026 to co-develop a local AI stack for macOS. Liquid AI will develop and fine-tune Liquid Foundation Models for macOS assistant tasks, running locally on Apple silicon through Elix, MacPaw's on-device inference framework, alongside Mnemos, MacPaw's memory layer for retaining context across interactions. Eney, MacPaw's macOS assistant, will be the first product to use the stack, with results expected later in 2026; cloud models remain available where preferred. The companies said the models, inference framework, and memory layer are designed as shared infrastructure that could later be offered to Mac developers via Setapp, MacPaw's software marketplace. Liquid AI cited Mercedes-Benz, Insilico Medicine, and Shopify as existing on-device customers.
- liquid.ai2026-08-05