oMLX creator Jun Kim joins Hugging Face to work on MLX local AI full-time
LysandreJik · x · 2026-09-22
Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face to support the MLX community full-time.
- Background: oMLX started as Kim's personal project in February to lower the barrier to MLX, Apple's framework optimized for Apple Silicon local AI.
- Impact on oMLX: The project graduates from a side job to a fully maintained and funded effort, with faster and more stable development. oMLX remains Apache 2.0 under Kim's leadership.
- Impact on the MLX ecosystem: Hugging Face plans to use oMLX as a testbed for new ideas and upstream work to foundational libraries like mlx-lm and mlx-vlm, while deepening collaboration with projects such as LM Studio.
- HF notes open local AI usage is accelerating and calls Apple Silicon the easiest entry point for everyday users.
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