empero-ai · First MLX build 3 Aug 2026

Qwythos-27B-v1

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A 27B parameter vision and text model from empero-ai, with one MLX build at 4-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
27B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Qwythos-27B-v1-OptiQ-4bit
Memory needed
20 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
16.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
304
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
1
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-vlm
$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwythos-27B-v1-OptiQ-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Qwythos-27B-v1-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit 16.1 GB 20 GB 304

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