According to a recent Y Combinator article published on August 12, 2026, Apple has achieved a significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence acceleration with the release of llama.cpp, which boosts large language model inference speed by up to 11-16 times.[8336210] As reported by another Y Combinator article on August 11, 2026, this innovation is expected to have a profound impact on the performance and efficiency of Apple's LLM-based applications, including macOS VMs.[8248114]