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mlx reviews and mentions

• Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2026

  I thought this seemed significant at the time: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983

• Gemma 4 dense by default: why your local agent doesn't want the MoE
  5 projects | dev.to | 23 May 2026

  Compilation is cleaner on dense. llama.cpp, MLX, and vLLM all support both, but the dense path has had more attention. Fewer corner cases in expert routing, GQA, and KV layout interactions. If you've ever had a custom kernel mis-handle expert dispatch, you know.

• Notes + Local AI: Simpler Than You Think
  5 projects | dev.to | 19 May 2026

  For AI, you don't have to use a cloud model. Ollama and Apple MLX let you run models locally against the same folder. Useful if you have notes you'd rather not send to an external API. DS4 is worth looking at specifically. The latest models support up to 200k token context windows, so you can feed in most of your notes folder in a single pass.

• LLM Model Names Decoded: A Developer's Guide to Parameters, Quantization & Formats
  2 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2026

  Further reading: Common AI Model Formats (HuggingFace Blog) · What is GGUF? Complete Guide · Safetensors Security Audit · MLX GitHub · Ollama: Importing Models

• Apple Silicon LLM Inference Optimization: The Complete Guide to Maximum Performance
  7 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2026

  MLX Framework (Apple) — Apple's native ML framework for Apple Silicon

• I Read OpenAI Codex's Source and Built My Workflow Around It
  3 projects | dev.to | 1 Apr 2026

  The --oss flag changes everything about how Codex CLI operates. Instead of calling the OpenAI API, it connects to a local model runtime. Ollama, LM Studio, and MLX are all supported through the OpenAI-compatible API interface.

• 2.78 TFLOPS on a Fanless MacBook Air? Benchmarking Apple's M4 with MLX
  1 project | dev.to | 18 Mar 2026

  Framework: MLX v0.28.0

• Show HN: MLX-Ruby – Ruby Bindings for Apple's MLX ML Framework
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2026

  (https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx).

  GitHub: https://github.com/skryl/mlx-ruby

  MLX-Ruby is a native C++ extension that wraps the upstream MLX runtime, giving Ruby full access to the array framework, neural network layers, optimizers, and Metal GPU acceleration on Apple silicon.

  What’s included:

• Running Local LLMs as Your AI Coding Assistant on Apple Silicon
  3 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2026

  MLX is Apple's machine learning framework, built specifically for Apple Silicon chips (M1, M2, M3, M4, and their Pro/Max/Ultra variants).

• My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2026

  Sure, I directly and explicitly talked about Apple's version of tensor cores in the GPU. But the ANE is by every definition a neural accelerator. Yes, I'm aware of Apple's weird branding for their tensor cores.

  "In fact MLX does not even support ANE yet"

  I didn't say otherwise. The ANE is a fantastic unit for small, power-efficient models, like extracting text from images, doing depth modelling, etc. It's not made for LLMs, or the other sorts of experimental stuff MLX is intended for. Though note that MLX's author's reason for not supporting the ANE is that it has a "closed-source" API (https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/issues/18#issuecomment-184...), making it unsuitable for an open-source project. But anyways, the ANE is fantastically fast at what it does, while sipping juice.

  In any case, the code change shown should have zero impact on the running of MLX on an iPhone 16 Pro. MLX tries to really leverage platform optimizations so maybe another bifucation is making the wrong choice.

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