Liquid AI · First MLX build 11 Jul 2025
LFM2-350M
MLX
Text lfm1.0
A 354M parameter text generation model from Liquid AI, with 6 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 354M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit LFM2-350M-8bit
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 377 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 545 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 6 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at 8-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/LFM2-350M-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
6 on mlx-community| LFM2-350M-4bit | 4-bit | 199 MB | 3 GB | 191 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LFM2-350M-5bit | 5-bit | 244 MB | 3 GB | 26 |
| LFM2-350M-6bit | 6-bit | 288 MB | 3 GB | 37 |
| LFM2-350M-8bit | 8-bit | 377 MB | 3 GB | 545 |
| LFM2-350M-MLX | Unstated | 709 MB | 3 GB | 59 |
| LFM2-350M-bf16 | bf16 | 709 MB | 3 GB | 28 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.