Daring Fireball: Apple Quietly Releases MLX, an Open Source Array Framework for Machine Learning on Apple Silicon

Apple Quietly Releases MLX, an Open Source Array Framework for Machine Learning on Apple Silicon

“Quietly” is a much-abused adverb in headlines, but I think apt for this. Apple’s machine learning research team has simply released this new framework on GitHub, with no fanfare:

The MLX examples repo has a variety of examples, including:

Transformer language model training.

Large-scale text generation with LLaMA and finetuning with LoRA.

Generating images with Stable Diffusion.

Speech recognition with OpenAI’s Whisper.

Seems quite useful already today, and expands the groundwork for on-device AI features in the future.

★ Thursday, 7 December 2023