JetBrains · First MLX build 11 Aug 2026

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 12B parameter text generation model from JetBrains, with 5 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
12B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-4bit
Memory needed
10 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
6.8 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
299
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
5
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/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
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Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-4bit 4-bit 6.8 GB 10 GB 299
Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-mxfp4 MXFP4 6.8 GB 10 GB 43
Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-6bit 6-bit 9.9 GB 14 GB 37
Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-8bit 8-bit 12.9 GB 17 GB 64
Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-bf16 bf16 24.3 GB 30 GB 42

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