Historically no, Ollama and the like have only used the CPU+GPU. That said, there are efforts being made to use the NPU. See: https://github.com/Anemll/Anemll

Historically no, Ollama and the like have only used the CPU+GPU. That said, there are efforts being made to use the NPU. See: https://github.com/Anemll/Anemll https://github.com/Anemll/Anemll - you can now run small models directly on your Apple Silicon Mac's NPU. It doesn't give better performance but it's massively more power efficient than using the GPU.