Ornith 1.5.

The taller Ornith: a reasoning-and-coding flock that adds vision, native tools, and a far-reaching flagship for Macs built to carry it.

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Model makerOrnith AI

Supported in LocalEnginemacOS

Upstream licenseMIT

SourceOrnith 1.5 model card ↗

Where it earns its space

Built for a real local rhythm.

These are good-fit starting points—not promises of benchmark performance. Choose the smallest listed option that comfortably covers your work.

Visual bug reports and code tasks

Agentic coding with native tools

High-memory Mac workflows

In LocalEngine

Configured variants, by device.

The formats below are the downloads currently represented in LocalEngine’s model catalogs. GGUF runs through the llama.cpp-based runtime; MLX options use the Apple Silicon MLX runtime.

macOS

9B · 35B-A3B · 397B

Formats: GGUF Q4_K_M + BF16 projector · MLX 4-bit
Local note: 397B is a 241.5 GB download for very high-memory Apple Silicon Macs; MLX builds are text-only.

About the source

Model identity, task category, supported formats, and license are based on the linked Hugging Face Ornith 1.5 model card and the LocalEngine macOS/iOS catalogs. Hardware guidance reflects the packaged variants, not a universal system requirement.