lm-provers · First MLX build 23 Mar 2026

QED-Nano

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 4B parameter text generation model from lm-provers, with one MLX build at 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
4B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
QED-Nano-8bit
Memory needed
7 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
688
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/QED-Nano-8bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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QED-Nano-8bit 8-bit 4.3 GB 7 GB 688

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