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Apple MLX

Apple's array and machine-learning framework for Apple Silicon, whose mlx-lm package serves language models over an HTTP endpoint.

Known aliases

  • mlx-lm

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A vsock hop keeps the model on Metal while the agent runs in Ubuntu

Apple's Virtualization.framework gives Linux guests a 2D framebuffer and no path to Metal. So a sandboxed coding agent has to send every request back across a vsock channel to an inference server running natively on macOS.

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