IBM · First MLX build 2 Oct 2025
granite-4.0-micro
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 3.4B parameter text generation model from IBM, with one MLX build at 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 3.4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit granite-4.0-micro-8bit
- Memory needed
- 7 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 3.6 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 70 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 7 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/granite-4.0-micro-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| granite-4.0-micro-8bit | 8-bit | 3.6 GB | 7 GB | 70 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.