Goekdeniz-Guelmez · First MLX build 18 Dec 2025
Josie-r1-4b
MLX
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A 4B parameter text generation model from Goekdeniz-Guelmez, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- Unstated Josie-r1-4b-bfloat16
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 8.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 17 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 4 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 11 GB at Unstated
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/Josie-r1-4b-bfloat16 --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
4 on mlx-community| Josie-r1-4b-4bit | 4-bit | 2.3 GB | 5 GB | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josie-r1-4b-6bit | 6-bit | 3.3 GB | 6 GB | 14 |
| Josie-r1-4b-8bit | 8-bit | 4.3 GB | 7 GB | 13 |
| Josie-r1-4b-bfloat16 | Unstated | 8.0 GB | 11 GB | 17 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.