Jun Kim, the creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face to support the MLX community. This move aims to provide stability and faster development for the open-source project by transitioning it from a side job to a fully maintained and funded initiative.

  • Jun Kim will continue leading oMLX under the Apache 2.0 license.
  • The project will serve as a testbed for new ideas while leveraging dependencies like mlx-lm and mlx-vlm.
  • A key focus is streamlining the transition from transformers model definitions to reference MLX implementations.
  • Hugging Face aims to strengthen relationships with projects such as LMStudio, mlx-lm, and mlx-vlm.

This collaboration seeks to unblock the community by providing tools and building blocks for running local AI in various forms.