dphn · First MLX build 5 Jan 2025

Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B

MLX Text llama3.1

A 8B parameter text generation model from dphn, with 6 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-MLX-4bit
Memory needed
8 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.5 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
776
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
6
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/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-MLX-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

6 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-MLX-4bit 4-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 776
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-4bit 4-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 280
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-MLX-6bit 6-bit 6.5 GB 10 GB 284
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-6bit 6-bit 6.5 GB 10 GB 43
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-8bit 8-bit 8.5 GB 12 GB 87
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-bf16 bf16 16.1 GB 20 GB 56

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