{"slug": "jun-kim-omlx-creator-and-maintainer-joins-hugging-face-to-support-the-mlx", "title": "Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community", "summary": "Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face to lead the oMLX project as a fully maintained and funded effort, Hugging Face announced. oMLX remains Apache 2.0 licensed and Kim continues to lead it, with the goal of unblocking the community to run local AI on Apple's MLX framework for Apple Silicon. Hugging Face said oMLX will serve as a testbed for new ideas while leveraging dependencies such as mlx-lm and mlx-vlm, and that a focus area is streamlining the transition from a transformers model definition to a reference MLX implementation.", "body_md": "# \n\t\tJun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community\n\t\n\n [Update on GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/omlx.md)\n\nMLX is Apple's framework for local AI, especially optimized for Apple Silicon. We are big MLX supporters since it was the Christmas present from [Awni](https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1732184443451019431?s=20) and [Angelos](https://x.com/angeloskath/status/1732304844403429477?s=20) in 2023, and proud that Hugging Face is the Hub where people find MLX models and contribute their own. Usage of open, local AI is accelerating, and we believe in a healthy ecosystem where people can find the tools that work for them.\n\n## \n\t\tWhat is the impact for oMLX?\n\t\n\nStability, and hopefully faster development! Graduating from a side job to a fully maintained and funded project will allow Jun to better guide the contributors and build for the long-term. [oMLX](https://github.com/jundot/omlx) stays Apache 2.0, and Jun keeps leading it as before.\n\n## \n\t\tWhat is the impact for MLX at large?\n\t\n\nOur end goal is to unblock the community to run local AI in any shape or form, and provide the tools and building blocks to make that happen. We expect oMLX to serve as a testbed for new ideas, while leveraging the foundational work of the dependencies it already relies upon, such as [mlx-lm](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm) or [mlx-vlm](https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm). We believe that strong modeling and inference libraries help the community, so we'd love to upstream work to wherever it makes sense. We have been collaborating with many projects mlx-lm, mlx-vlm, LMStudio, and we hope we can strengthen the relationship with [Cheng](https://x.com/zcbenz), [Prince](https://x.com/Prince_Canuma), [Yagil](https://x.com/yagilb), and their teams to better serve the community together.\n\nConcretely, one focus area is the quick transition from a transformers model definition to a reference MLX implementation that can be consumed by different engines, so each one can focus on the unique features they provide. The transformers library has become the reference for ML model definitions, we want to streamline the process to make new transformers models run on MLX.\n\nWe are incredibly excited about the future.\n\nWelcome, Jun! 🙌", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jun-kim-omlx-creator-and-maintainer-joins-hugging-face-to-support-the-mlx", "canonical_source": "https://huggingface.co/blog/omlx", "published_at": "2026-09-22 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 06:52:25.736706+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Jun Kim", "oMLX", "Hugging Face", "MLX", "Apple", "mlx-lm", "mlx-vlm", "LMStudio"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jun-kim-omlx-creator-and-maintainer-joins-hugging-face-to-support-the-mlx", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jun-kim-omlx-creator-and-maintainer-joins-hugging-face-to-support-the-mlx.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jun-kim-omlx-creator-and-maintainer-joins-hugging-face-to-support-the-mlx.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jun-kim-omlx-creator-and-maintainer-joins-hugging-face-to-support-the-mlx.jsonld"}}