Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
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Jun Kim, the creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face to support the MLX community. This move aims to provide stability and accelerate development for oMLX by transitioning it from a side project to a fully funded initiative. While Jun continues to lead oMLX under the Apache 2.0 license, his new role allows him to guide contributors more effectively. Hugging Face views MLX as a central component of the local AI ecosystem, particularly for Apple Silicon optimization. The collaboration seeks to streamline the process of converting transformers model definitions into reference MLX implementations. By leveraging existing dependencies like mlx-lm and mlx-vlm, the team hopes to upstream work where appropriate and strengthen relationships with other key projects. This partnership is designed to unblock the community in running local AI across various formats and engines.
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