Uzu
Mirai TechUzu is a high-performance on-device inference engine for Apple platforms, running models locally on iOS and macOS against unified memory so that inference needs no network round trip and no per-token cost. It ships Python, TypeScript and Swift bindings in-repo.
Openness
5 medium confidence- license
- MIT(OSI)
- source
- public(the published repository is the engine)
- core features withheld
- no — no enterprise path in the repository root and no paid build of the engine in the README
Uzu's LICENSE is the stock MIT text with no appended condition, and the public repository is the engine itself rather than a wrapper around closed code. Its root carries no enterprise or commercial directory, and the README describes no license-gated build, so nothing in the published source is held back.
- https://api.github.com/repos/trymirai/uzu recorded 2026-08-31
Repo metadata for trymirai/uzu - archived false, 1,684 stars.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trymirai/uzu/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07
LICENSE body, read in full: the stock MIT text, Copyright (c) 2025 Mirai Tech Inc., with no appended condition.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trymirai/uzu/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07
README, read for a paid tier, an enterprise edition or a licence-gated build beside the published source, and for whether any component is stated to be private.
Adoption
2 low confidenceUzu is distributed mainly as Rust and Swift builds, so GitHub stars are its adoption signal. A `uzu` package does exist on PyPI and resolves to this repository, but its downloads measure a minority channel next to that primary distribution, so no package artifact is declared.
- https://api.github.com/repos/trymirai/uzu recorded 2026-08-31
Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 1,684 - for trymirai/uzu.
Capability
3 medium confidenceUzu sits two tiers below vLLM, level with llamafile, the other single-target local engine here. It serves one hardware family and does not carry the multi-node or parallelism surface the higher tiers are built around.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trymirai/uzu/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07
README, read for the engine's feature set: On-device inference on Apple silicon against unified memory, with Python, TypeScript and Swift bindings; single-platform rather than multi-accelerator.
Verified 2026-09-27