oMLX creator joins Hugging Face, project gains company-backed maintenance
oMLX moves from a side project to Hugging Face-funded maintenance with the license unchanged; steadier continuity for local AI tooling, actual speedup remains to be seen.
Original event 2026-09-22
Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face, moving the project from a side job to company-funded maintenance.
Hugging Face announced the hire in an official blog post on September 22, describing MLX as central to its local AI strategy. oMLX stays Apache 2.0 licensed, with Jun Kim continuing to lead it.
The company says oMLX will serve as a testbed for new ideas and that one focus is streamlining the transition from transformers model definitions to reference MLX implementations. These are stated plans, not verified results; the actual development pace remains to be observed.