{"version":1,"type":"story","url":"https://digestai.news/story/jun-kim-joins-hugging-face-to-lead-omlx-for-the-mlx-community","json":"https://digestai.news/story/jun-kim-joins-hugging-face-to-lead-omlx-for-the-mlx-community.json","markdown":"https://digestai.news/story/jun-kim-joins-hugging-face-to-lead-omlx-for-the-mlx-community.md","slug":"jun-kim-joins-hugging-face-to-lead-omlx-for-the-mlx-community","headline":"Jun Kim joins Hugging Face to lead oMLX for the MLX community","summary":"Hugging Face announced that Jun Kim, the creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined the company. oMLX is an open‑source library that enables running Apple’s MLX framework—optimized for Apple Silicon—on local devices. The move turns what was a side‑project into a fully maintained and funded effort within Hugging Face.\n\nHugging Face said the partnership will let Jun guide contributors, improve long‑term stability, and accelerate development of tools that let developers move from a Transformers model definition to a reference MLX implementation. The company highlighted ongoing collaborations with projects such as mlx‑lm, mlx‑vlm, and LMStudio, and expressed intent to upstream work where appropriate. oMLX will remain under the Apache 2.0 license, and Jun will continue leading it.\n\nThe announcement reflects growing interest in open, local AI that runs without cloud services, and positions Hugging Face as a hub for models and libraries that target Apple Silicon hardware.","keyPoints":["Jun Kim, creator of oMLX, is now a Hugging Face employee to support the MLX ecosystem.","oMLX stays Apache 2.0 licensed and will continue under Jun’s leadership at Hugging Face.","Hugging Face plans to streamline converting Transformers models to MLX implementations for local AI."],"whyItMatters":"Brings dedicated resources to Apple‑silicon local AI, helping developers deploy open‑source models on devices without relying on cloud infrastructure.","category":{"slug":"agents","name":"Agents & Tools","url":"https://digestai.news/category/agents"},"entities":{"companies":["Hugging Face","Apple"],"models":[],"people":["Jun Kim"]},"firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-22T00:00:00Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-22T00:00:00Z","sourceCount":1,"hasPrimarySource":true,"sources":[{"outlet":"Hugging Face","title":"Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/omlx","publishedAt":"2026-09-22T00:00:00Z","type":"primary","primary":true,"lead":true}],"sourceNotes":null,"discussions":[],"thread":null,"cite":{"text":"Digest AI, \"Jun Kim joins Hugging Face to lead oMLX for the MLX community\", 22 September 2026, https://digestai.news/story/jun-kim-joins-hugging-face-to-lead-omlx-for-the-mlx-community","publisher":"Digest AI","title":"Jun Kim joins Hugging Face to lead oMLX for the MLX community","datePublished":"2026-09-22T00:00:00Z","url":"https://digestai.news/story/jun-kim-joins-hugging-face-to-lead-omlx-for-the-mlx-community"},"generatedBy":"Written by Digest AI's editorial model from the linked sources; the sources are the record.","license":"Headlines, digests and key points are written by Digest AI and may be quoted with a link to the story page. Linked articles belong to their publishers. Terms: https://digestai.news/terms#reuse"}