MLX for Local LLM Inference and a Guide to Choosing Among 5 Inference Engines

The author introduces Apple's MLX and mlx-lm, optimized for Apple Silicon's unified memory for local LLM inference on Mac, and provides a comparison table for choosing among five major inference engines including vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, llama.cpp, and MLX.

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