DeepSeek · First MLX build 20 Jan 2025

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

MLX Text

A 15B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 7 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
15B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-4bit
Memory needed
12 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
8.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
2.4K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
7
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-Distill-Qwen-14B-4bit

MLX builds

7 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-3bit 3-bit 6.5 GB 10 GB 268
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-4bit 4-bit 8.3 GB 12 GB 2.4K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-6bit 6-bit 12.0 GB 16 GB 742
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-8bit 8-bit 15.7 GB 20 GB 730
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B Unstated 29.5 GB 36 GB 186
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-bf16 bf16 29.5 GB 36 GB 58
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-MLX Unstated — — 0

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