jinaai · First MLX build 18 Jan 2025

reader-lm-0.5b

MLX Text cc-by-nc-4.0

A 494M parameter text generation model from jinaai, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
494M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
reader-lm-0.5b
Memory needed
4 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
988 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
38
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
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-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/reader-lm-0.5b --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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reader-lm-0.5b Unstated 988 MB 4 GB 38

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