Apple Finally Sinks Its Teeth Into AI

Apple has historically been reticent to fully embrace emerging technologies, often watching from the sidelines as others lead the way. While artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural networks have exploded in capability and popularity in recent years, Apple has lagged behind. That finally appears to be changing with Apple’s quiet release of its new open-source MLX machine learning framework.

MLX shows all the signatures of Apple’s thoughtful design. The API will be instantly familiar to those who have used NumPy and PyTorch, making adoption easy for…