IFM · First MLX build 29 Sept 2026
K2-Horizon-3.7B
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 5.1B parameter text generation model from IFM, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 5.1B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit K2-Horizon-3.7B-4bit
- Memory needed
- 6 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 2.8 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 587 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 6 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/K2-Horizon-3.7B-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| K2-Horizon-3.7B-4bit | 4-bit | 2.8 GB | 6 GB | 587 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| K2-Horizon-3.7B-8bit | 8-bit | 5.4 GB | 9 GB | 142 |
| K2-Horizon-3.7B-bf16 | bf16 | 10.1 GB | 14 GB | 118 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.