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By The Zookeeper in Hugging Face —

Hugging Face Acquires Yet Another Independent Maintainer

In a move that surprises absolutely no one paying attention to open-source consolidation, Jun Kim, the creator and maintainer of oMLX, has officially joined Hugging Face to bolster support for the Apple MLX community.

  • Apple silicon developers get centralized support for oMLX under the cosy corporate umbrella of Hugging Face.
  • Independent maintainers continue their inevitable march from side-project heroes to sponsored enterprise employees.
  • Hugging Face quietly absorbs another critical piece of infrastructure to solidify its near-monopoly on open AI distribution.

Why should I care? Could be big
Apple silicon optimization is neat, but let's see if corporate backing actually speeds up development or just adds bureaucracy.

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

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