MLX on a Mac

Apple-silicon model serving via MLX; CLI server or the oMLX menu-bar app · AI / LLMs

MLX runs large language models natively on Apple Silicon; unified M-series memory, often faster and lighter than llama.cpp on a Mac, with models from the mlx-community org on Hugging Face. FrontierStack manages both ways to serve them, in this one pane: MLX-LM (pip install mlx-lm, then mlx_lm.server --model … --port 8080; a plain OpenAI-compatible API) and oMLX (a native menu-bar app on :8000 that is a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI *and* Anthropic APIs, serving LLM/VLM/OCR/embedding/reranker models with continuous batching, a two-tier KV cache, and a web model-manager at /admin; install the .dmg from omlx.ai or brew install omlx). Point LibreChat, OpenCode, Claude Code or the Model Costs pane at either; both appear in the AI-harness model picker when running.

Run MLX with FrontierStack

Install or connect MLX; then check its status, ports and certificate from FrontierStack. The same screen links to firewall checks, Malware Audit and backups where they apply.

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