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

Hugging Face Blog·2026-09-22

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This is mostly a talent acquisition story dressed up as community support, and it matters because MLX adoption is still niche enough that Hugging Face needs to manufacture momentum around it. Kim's move signals that open-source ML tooling has real commercial value now, but it also means MLX's trajectory depends on corporate backing rather than organic adoption—which is fine, but let's not pretend this is about altruism. For practitioners, the takeaway is straightforward: if you're betting on MLX for production work, you now have institutional backing to lean on, which reduces risk but also means the roadmap will follow Hugging Face's interests, not necessarily yours.

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