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Apple Silicon now runs vision-language models locally with MLX-VLM

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What is mlx-vlm?

MLX-VLM lets you run and fine-tune multimodal AI models, text, images, video, and audio, directly on a Mac with Apple Silicon. It offers a Python API, command-line tools, and a Gradio chat UI built on the MLX library.

Who it is for

Developers and researchers who want to prototype multimodal AI without cloud GPUs can experiment locally on their Mac.

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