ProductJun 11, 2026, 06:22 AM
Show HN: Magenta Real-Time Music Generation on iPhone, Without the GPU
Summary
Last Thursday, DeepMind released Magenta Realtime 2, an open-source music generation model, claiming it could run on Mac but not iPhone. A developer took it as a personal challenge, chopped the model into 5 pieces, and ran them on different parts of an iPhone 12 Pro's SoC (including the NPU), achieving 10 minutes of continuous real-time generation without overheating. The developer noted that leveraging the Apple Neural Engine prevents device overheating, and wrote zero lines of code by hand.
Why it matters
This event demonstrates a technical breakthrough in running AI music generation models on mobile devices without a GPU, involving DeepMind's open-source model and optimization for Apple's chips.
Source links
- https://github.com/mattmireles/magenta-realtime-2-iphone
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