inclusionAI · First MLX build 20 Mar 2026

UI-Venus-1.5-2B

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A 2.4B parameter vision and text model from inclusionAI, with 2 MLX builds, from 6-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
2.4B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
6-bit
UI-Venus-1.5-2B-6bit
Memory needed
5 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
2.5 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
69
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
2
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/UI-Venus-1.5-2B-6bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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UI-Venus-1.5-2B-6bit 6-bit 2.5 GB 5 GB 69
UI-Venus-1.5-2B-bf16 bf16 4.9 GB 8 GB 60

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