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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