Hugging Face announced that Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of the open-source oMLX local inference project, is joining the company, where oMLX moves from a side job to a fully maintained and funded project while staying Apache 2.0 under his continued leadership. Hugging Face frames the move as backing for the MLX ecosystem, saying oMLX will serve as a testbed for new ideas and that it wants to upstream work alongside mlx-lm, mlx-vlm, LM Studio, and other local-AI tools.
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
Hugging Face announced that Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of the open-source oMLX local inference project, is joining the company, where oMLX moves from a side job to a fully maintained and funded project while staying Apache 2.0 under his continued leadership. Hugging Face frames the move as backing for the MLX ecosystem, saying oMLX will serve as a testbed for new ideas and that it wants to upstream work alongside mlx-lm, mlx-vlm, LM Studio, and other local-AI tools.
Source: Huggingface