{"id":"2028457255968874940","url":"https://x.com/AmbsdOP/status/2028457255968874940","text":"YES! Someone reverse-engineered Apple's Neural Engine and trained a neural network on it.\n\nApple never allowed this. ANE is inference-only. No public API, no docs.\n\nThey cracked it open anyway.\n\nWhy it matters:\n\n• M4 ANE = 6.6 TFLOPS/W vs 0.08 for an A100 (80× more efficient)\n• \"38 TOPS\" is a lie - real throughput is 19 TFLOPS FP16\n• Your Mac mini has this chip sitting mostly idle\n\nTranslation: local AI inference that's faster AND uses almost no power.\n\nStill early research but the door is now open.\n\n→ http://github.com/maderix/ANE\n\n#AI #MachineLearning #AppleSilicon #LocalAI #OpenSource #ANE #CoreML #AppleSilicon #NPU #KCORES","author":{"name":"Vali Neagu","username":"AmbsdOP","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1824556101666271232/gRU0y55Z_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Mon Mar 02 13:07:51 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":153,"retweets":706,"likes":6955,"views":551936},"media":{"photos":[{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HCaHFVnagAAQX-r.jpg?name=orig","width":980,"height":551}],"videos":[]},"externalLink":{"url":"http://github.com/maderix/ANE","displayUrl":"github.com","title":"GitHub - maderix/ANE: Training neural networks on Apple Neural Engine via reverse-engineered private APIs","description":"Training neural networks on Apple Neural Engine via reverse-engineered private APIs - maderix/ANE","thumbnailUrl":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/d018adf8f0b40de2cb82d269ed664d6c7a50d948de89759b26f5e02f9ab28ef3/maderix/ANE"}}