LaunchDevelopersAugust 24, 2026

JetBrains Junie now runs fully offline on Mac

Junie Local ships Qwen3.6-27B at 4-bit (~20 GB download) and requires an M5 Mac with 64 GB RAM. It runs entirely on-device with no tokens or cloud, and the M5 Neural Accelerator's 8-bit instructions give ~40% more prefill throughput.

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