wtf is laguna-otari-bridge?

Laguna Otari Bridge is a set of scripts for running a large AI language model called Laguna, made by a company called poolside, directly on an Apple computer with an M series chip, and then making that model available over the internet as a private, password protected API endpoint. The project explains how to build a special version of a tool called llama.cpp that can run the Laguna model using the Mac's graphics hardware, download the model's weights, which are the large files that make up the model itself, and start a local server that answers requests in the same format used by OpenAI's API. A second part of the project, called otari bridge, puts a security gate in front of that local server using a tool called Caddy and a service called Tailscale, so the model can be reached from outside the home network over a secure web address while still requiring an access key. Most of the README documents things the author discovered while getting this working, since much of it was not written down anywhere else. For example, an optional speed up feature recommended for the model actually made responses several times slower here, because none of its predictions were ever accepted, so the author suggests leaving that feature off until the underlying cause is understood. The README also notes that the model's own reasoning text uses up part of the same token budget as its final answer, so a low limit on response length can cause an empty looking reply, and that the underlying server will keep answering with whichever model it loaded regardless of what a client asks for by name, which the security gate in this project corrects. Running this requires a Mac with Apple Silicon and a large amount of unified memory, at least 128 gigabytes for the smaller of the supported model file sizes, along with roughly 80 gigabytes of free disk space and, optionally, a Tailscale account for the public facing option. The scripts in this repository are released under the MIT license, so they can be freely used, changed, and shared, including commercially. The Laguna model itself is released under a separate license set by poolside, not by this project.