Now I can finally play with my local SAM Audio installation and discover just how useful it really is. Meta advertises it as a professional-grade tool, but is it?

Meta recently released SAM-Audio, an exciting new audio LLM capable of separating sounds from complex mixtures using text or visual prompts. Like many research models, it isn’t installable out of the box for macOS users. To get it running on my M1 Mac was a bit of an adventure, but I managed in the end.

I have started using Continue with Ollama to have a local llm assist my coding. Initially it was too slow to be of real use, but since adopting GLM4, it now rivals Cursor in performance.