Building a listed tool
Awni Hannun
MLX original co-creator; left Apple February 2026, named behind the MLX LM listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Awni builds
Open-source Python package and command-line tools from Apple's MLX team for running, quantising and fine-tuning language models on Apple silicon.
mlx_lm.serverexposes a local HTTP API modelled on OpenAI's chat completions.MLX original co-creator; left Apple February 2026, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Anastasiia Filippova Apple ML researcher; active MLX LM developer
- Angelos Katharopoulos Original MLX co-creator; continuing MLX team named in handover
- Jagrit Digani Original MLX co-creator; continuing MLX team named in handover
- Ronan Collobert Original MLX co-creator; continuing MLX team named in handover
Questions
Who is Awni Hannun?
Awni Hannun is MLX original co-creator; left Apple February 2026.
What does Apple Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists MLX LM from Apple Inc.. Open-source Python package and command-line tools from Apple's MLX team for running, quantising and fine-tuning language models on Apple silicon. mlx_lm.server exposes a local HTTP API modelled on OpenAI's chat completions.
How are Awni's tools graded?
MLX LM is graded D, 52.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (14)
- https://github.com/nastya236
- https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm/commits/main/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiia-filippova-582067222/
- https://x.com/NasFilippova
- https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx
- https://x.com/awnihannun/status/2027506228143030480
- https://x.com/awnihannun
- https://x.com/DiganiJagrit
- https://x.com/angeloskath
- https://x.com/trebolloc
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/apple
- https://x.com/Apple
- https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm
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