Ai2 · First MLX build 24 Jun 2026
tmax-9b
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 9B parameter text generation model from Ai2, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 9B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit Tmax-9B-MLX-8bit
- Memory needed
- 13 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 9.5 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 52 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 4 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 13 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/Tmax-9B-MLX-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
4 on mlx-community| Tmax-9B-MLX-4bit | 4-bit | 5.0 GB | 8 GB | 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tmax-9B-MLX-6bit | 6-bit | 7.3 GB | 11 GB | 27 |
| Tmax-9B-MLX-8bit | 8-bit | 9.5 GB | 13 GB | 52 |
| Tmax-9B-MLX-bf16 | bf16 | 17.9 GB | 23 GB | 29 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.