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EmbeddingGemma 2 on MLX-VLM

Multimodal embeddings on Apple silicon

Meet Google DeepMind’s EmbeddingGemma 2: text, images, audio, and video in one embedding space, with day-zero support on Apple silicon through MLX-VLM.

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GLM-5.3-Flash on Nativ

Day-0 support, powered by mlx-vlm

A 320B sparse-MoE vision-language model with a hybrid linear/sparse-attention backbone and a 1M-token context, running on your Mac out of the box.

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