MLX on Apple Silicon
Run, serve, quantize and fine-tune models with mlx-lm: how unified memory sets your speed ceiling, how to size models for your Mac, and when MLX beats llama.cpp's Metal backend.
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MLX is Apple's array framework for Apple Silicon. It was designed around one fact about these chips: the CPU and GPU share a single pool of memory. mlx-lm is the LLM toolkit on top of it, and for many Mac owners it is the fastest way to run, serve and fine-tune open models.
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