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I Built KIRA: A Local-First AI Agent That Has to Prove Its Work
Community description: Disclosure: I am the maker of KIRA Superapp and Orchestrator V1. This is a technical build story, not...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | KIRA Superapp
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TL;DR Local model: Orchestrator V1 runs through MLX on Apple silicon. Local orchestration KIRA uses MLX, optimized for Apple silicon. The installer downloads Orchestrator V1 into a local model directory. Local voice An Apple-optimized Whisper model provides local speech-to-text. Local voice Whisper provides local speech-to-text, while the Kokoro ONNX path provides local text-to-speech.
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