Hugging Face welcomes oMLX creator Jun Kim to support MLX community growth
jun kim joins hugging face to support mlx, apple's local ai framework, impacting open-source ai tooling.
hugging face has announced that jun kim, creator and maintainer of omlx, has joined their team to support the mlx community. mlx is a framework for local ai developed by apple, optimized for apple silicon. with this addition, hugging face aims to strengthen the mlx ecosystem, ensuring stability and potentially faster development of omlx. the project will remain apache 2.0, with jun continuing to lead it. hugging face plans to use omlx as a testbed for new ideas and collaborate with other projects like mlx-lm and mlx-vlm.