JetBrains · First MLX build 11 Oct 2026

Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking

MLX Text apache-2.0 Trending

A 12B parameter text generation model from JetBrains, with one MLX build at 6-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
12B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
6-bit
Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-6bit
Memory needed
14 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
9.9 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
1.3K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
1
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/Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-6bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-6bit 6-bit 9.9 GB 14 GB 1.3K

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