mac mini / vMLX error
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Process exited before becoming ready: ValueError: Model type mage_vl not supported. Error: No module named 'mlx_vlm.speculative.drafters.mage_vl'
Is the error reported when using vMLX to load the model due to vMLX not supporting it?
Not vMLX — your mlx-vlm is just older than the model.
mage_vl was merged into mlx-vlm on 2026-07-29 (PR #1745), and the newest PyPI release (0.6.8) went out 2026-07-27 — two days earlier. So pip install mlx-vlm doesn't include it yet. Until 0.6.9 ships:
pip install -U git+https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm
The speculative.drafters part of the message is a red herring. The loader tries mlx_vlm.models.<type> first and mlx_vlm.speculative.drafters.<type> second, then reports only the last error — so the failure that actually matters is the first one, mlx_vlm.models.mage_vl not being there. Mage-VL has no speculative drafter and doesn't need one.
One caveat: if vMLX bundles or pins its own copy of mlx-vlm rather than using your environment's, updating it there is what counts — or wait for 0.6.9 and a vMLX bump.