Rakuten · First MLX build 20 Mar 2026

RakutenAI-2.0-8x7B

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 47B parameter text generation model from Rakuten, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
47B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
RakutenAI-2.0-8x7B-MLX-4bit
Memory needed
32 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
26.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
50
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/RakutenAI-2.0-8x7B-MLX-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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RakutenAI-2.0-8x7B-MLX-4bit 4-bit 26.3 GB 32 GB 50
RakutenAI-2.0-8x7B-MLX-8bit 8-bit 49.8 GB 58 GB 28

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