Menlo · First MLX build 16 Jun 2025

Jan-nano

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 4B parameter text generation model from Menlo, with 2 MLX builds, from 8-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
4B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
Jan-nano-8bit
Memory needed
7 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
62
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
2
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/Jan-nano-8bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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Jan-nano-8bit 8-bit 4.3 GB 7 GB 62
Jan-nano-4B-bf16 bf16 8.0 GB 11 GB 39

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