DeepSeek · First MLX build 20 Jan 2025

DeepSeek-R1

MLX Text mit

A 671B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 5 MLX builds, from 2-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
671B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
DeepSeek-R1-4bit
Memory needed
425 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
378 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
1.7K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
5
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 · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-4bit

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
DeepSeek-R1-2bit 2-bit 210 GB 237 GB 205
DeepSeek-R1-3bit 3-bit 294 GB 331 GB 722
DeepSeek-R1-4bit 4-bit 378 GB 425 GB 1.7K
DeepSeek-R1-qm_4_2 4-bit 378 GB 425 GB 35
DeepSeek-R1 8-bit — — 55

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