Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 — official Apple Core AI export
Pre-converted .aimodel bundles from Apple's official
coreai-models export recipe — unmodified,
with the exact environment, hashes, and measured performance published.
uv run coreai.llm.export mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3
Use it
▶️ Run it (source) — the ChatDemo runner (GUI + CLI, one app for every chat model in the catalog):
git clone https://github.com/john-rocky/coreai-kit
open coreai-kit/Examples/ChatDemo/ChatDemo.xcodeproj
# → Run, then pick "Mistral 7B v0.3" in the model picker
# agents / headless (macOS):
cd coreai-kit/Examples/ChatDemo
swift run chat-cli --model mistral-7b-v0.3 --prompt "What can you do, offline?"
💻 Build with it — complete; the glue is kit API, copy-paste runs:
import CoreAIKit
let chat = try await ChatSession(catalog: "mistral-7b-v0.3")
let reply = try await chat.respond(to: prompt)
// reply: the answer, generated fully on-device
The take-home is Examples/ChatDemo/Sources/QuickStart.swift
— this exact code as one typed function, no UI; the CLI is an argument shell over it, and
the GUI drives the same ChatSession across turns for its transcript.
Multi-turn? Hold the ChatSession and call respond(to:) per turn — it keeps the
conversation history; streamResponse(to:) yields tokens as they decode.
Integration checklist
- SPM:
https://github.com/john-rocky/coreai-kit→ product CoreAIKit - Info.plist: none needed
- Entitlements: none needed (macOS)
- First run downloads the model — 4.1 GB (Mac) — then it loads from the
local cache (Application Support; progress via the
downloadProgresscallback) - Measure in Release — Debug is ~3× slower on per-token host work
Why pre-converted bundles?
- The conversion needs a big-RAM Mac (the 20B export was done on 128 GB); running only needs enough RAM to mmap the artifact.
- An
.aimodelis a build artifact, not a pure function of the recipe — the same export command produced a 2.2× slower artifact across the macOS 26 → 27β boundary (forensics). Hosted artifacts + hashes are the reproducible ground truth; every bundle here is exactly the one measured in apple-silicon-llm-bench.
Bundles & integrity
| Bundle | Contents | SHA-256 (main.mlirb) |
|---|---|---|
macos/ |
macOS dynamic, int4 | 81c422124f0ccbf7e5e325a846e77656a4efeef0fc70bf0c5e1dfeb48de7581e |
Measured (Apple's official llm-benchmark, greedy)
| Bundle | Protocol | Decode tok/s | Prefill | Load (warm) | Peak RSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| macos | M4 Max, 512p/1024g | 101.7 | 976 | 0.56 s | 8.3 GB |
Heads-up if exporting yourself: the source repo downloads 27 GB (it ships duplicate
consolidated.safetensors); this bundle skips all that.
Export environment
- macOS 27.0 beta (build 26A5353q) · Xcode 27.0 (27A5194q)
coreai-core 1.0.0b1·coreai-torch 0.4.0·coreai-opt 0.2.0·torch 2.9.0- apple/coreai-models @
b1cb71b(export code identical to upstream0c1055f)
Run it
# CLI (from a coreai-models checkout)
swift run -c release llm-runner --model <downloaded-bundle-dir> --prompt "Hello"
swift run -c release llm-benchmark --model <downloaded-bundle-dir>
Or chat with it in CoreAIChatMac (point "Choose Models Folder…" at the download directory).
iOS static bundles must be AOT-compiled before device use:
xcrun coreai-build compile <ir>.aimodel --platform iOS --preferred-compute neural-engine --architecture h18p
(h18p = iPhone 17 Pro), then set metadata.json assets.main to the .aimodelc.
Maintained alongside coreai-model-zoo (community models) and coreai-samples (apps).
Model tree for mlboydaisuke/mistral-7b-v0.3-CoreAI-official
Base model
mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.3