Privacy First: Building a Local Llama-3 Health Assistant on MacBook M3 with MLX

Do you really want to upload your private medical records, blood test results, or sensitive health concerns to a cloud server? For many of us, the answer is a resounding no . With the rise of Edge AI and the incredible performance of Apple Silicon , we no longer have to choose between intelligence and privacy. In this tutorial, we are going to build a lightning-fast, locally-hosted personal health assistant. We’ll be using Llama-3 , the MLX framework (optimized by Apple’s silicon team), and LLM