ContactDoctor · First MLX build 22 Jan 2025
Bio-Medical-Llama-3-8B
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A 8B parameter text generation model from ContactDoctor, with 2 MLX builds at 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 8B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Bio-Medical-Llama-3-8B
- Memory needed
- 8 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 4.5 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 68 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 2 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 8 GB at 4-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
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/Bio-Medical-Llama-3-8B --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
2 on mlx-community| Bio-Medical-Llama-3-8B | 4-bit | 4.5 GB | 8 GB | 68 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bio-Medical-Llama-3-8B-4bit | 4-bit | 4.5 GB | 8 GB | 50 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.