AI BriefingHugging Face Hires oMLX Developer to Expand MLX Support
Key point
Hugging Face has hired oMLX developer Jun Kim to strengthen support for the Apple Silicon-based MLX ecosystem and local AI infrastructure.
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Hugging Face announced on September 22, 2026, that it has hired Jun Kim, the founder and maintainer of oMLX. This hire aims to strengthen support for the MLX community, Apple's local AI framework, and the local AI ecosystem.
Change in oMLX's Role
oMLX has been promoted from a side project to a fully funded and maintained project. The Apache 2.0 license remains in place, and Jun Kim will continue to lead. oMLX will serve as a testbed for new ideas, with expectations for improved stability and development speed.
Ecosystem Collaboration and Technical Direction
Hugging Face serves as the Hub for MLX models and plans to strengthen collaboration with mlx-lm, mlx-vlm, LMStudio, and others. oMLX intends to improve the foundational work of existing dependencies and upstream robust modeling and inference libraries beneficial to the community.
The core focus area is the rapid conversion from transformers model definitions to reference MLX implementations consumable by various engines. This supports each engine in focusing on its unique features and simplifies the process for new models in the transformers library to run on MLX.
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