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Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

MLX's creator joins Hugging Face to scale Apple Silicon AI—a signal that on-device inference is becoming enterprise-grade.

Reporting by Hugging Face Blog 1 min brief
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A key figure in Apple Silicon optimization for ML is now backed by Hugging Face's platform. This signals the ecosystem's bet that efficient, on-device AI is moving from hobbyist tool to production infrastructure—and that Apple's hardware matters for the AI buildout.

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  1. Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face

  2. MLX is the primary ML framework optimized for Apple Silicon (M-series chips)

  3. Move positions Hugging Face to deepen support for on-device and edge AI inference

  4. Signals growing enterprise interest in Apple Silicon for AI workloads

  5. Published September 2026—recent hire announcement

  6. Jun Kim moves from independent maintainer to Hugging Face staff

  7. oMLX is the primary framework for optimizing ML on Apple Silicon

  8. Signals Hugging Face commitment to on-device and Apple Silicon AI

  9. Formalizes support structure for a widely-used open-source project

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