OMLX creator&maintainer Jun Kim joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community (huggingface.co)

Jun Kim, the creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face to enhance support for the MLX community, a framework designed for local AI tailored for Apple Silicon. This transition marks a significant advancement, as it shifts oMLX from a side project to a fully funded initiative, promising increased stability and a more structured development process. Hugging Face aims to make oMLX the central hub for accessing and contributing MLX models, which aligns with the growing demand for open, local AI tools. The collaboration will focus on streamlining the implementation of transformer models within the MLX framework, capitalizing on existing modeling and inference libraries. By establishing a quick transition from transformer model definitions to MLX-compatible implementations, Hugging Face seeks to empower developers to leverage the unique features of various engines more effectively. This initiative not only enhances accessibility to local AI but also fosters collaboration with other projects, ultimately enriching the ecosystem for developers and users alike.