Alibaba Qwen · First MLX build 3 May 2025
Qwen3-8B-Base
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 8.2B parameter text generation model from Alibaba Qwen, with one MLX build at bf16.
- Parameters
- 8.2B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- bf16 Qwen3-8B-Base-bf16
- Memory needed
- 21 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 16.4 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 146 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 21 GB at bf16
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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/Qwen3-8B-Base-bf16 --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Qwen3-8B-Base-bf16 | bf16 | 16.4 GB | 21 GB | 146 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.