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MLX creator @awnihannun sharing the story of MLX. Apple management called him right after the launch: “why didn’t you tell us this was going…
MLX is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Apple ML researcher Awni Hannun and colleagues, announced on December 5, 2023, and designed specifically for Apple Silicon hardware. Th...
MLX is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Apple ML researcher Awni Hannun and colleagues, announced on December 5, 2023, and designed specifically for Apple Silicon hardware. The referenced post recounts the behind-the-scenes story of MLX's launch, including Apple management contacting Hannun after release — apparently surprised by the project's scale and reception — suggesting the launch was not widely coordinated internally beforehand. MLX is a NumPy-like array framework built for efficiently training and deploying ML models on Apple Silicon, leveraging unified memory so operations run across CPU and GPU without data copies.
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