Apple's MLX Framework Stalls as Local AI Ecosystem Fragments

Developers criticize Apple for neglecting its local AI stack, as MLX has seen no substantive updates since a key maintainer left early this year, with core PRs backlogged for months. The fragmented ecosystem of duplicated quantized models and multiple inference engines has prompted calls for unified standards.

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