Cohere · First MLX build 24 Oct 2024

aya-expanse-8b

MLX Text cc-by-nc-4.0

A 8B parameter text generation model from Cohere, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
aya-expanse-8b-4bit
Memory needed
8 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.5 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
150
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
3
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · mlx-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/aya-expanse-8b-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

3 on mlx-community
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aya-expanse-8b-4bit 4-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 150
aya-expanse-8b-4bit-mlx 4-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 55
aya-expanse-8b-8bit 8-bit 8.5 GB 12 GB 59

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.