diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/generic.py b/src/transformers/utils/generic.py
index 28e63ce45b8eae..d5762337b50ac8 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/generic.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/generic.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def is_jax_tensor(x):
 
 
 def _is_mlx(x):
-    import mx.core as mx
+    import mlx.core as mx
 
     return isinstance(x, mx.array)