m42-health · First MLX build 15 Jan 2025

Llama3-Med42-8B

MLX Text llama3

A 8B parameter text generation model from m42-health, with one MLX build at 4-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Llama3-Med42-8B
Memory needed
8 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.5 GB
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/Llama3-Med42-8B --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Llama3-Med42-8B 4-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 38

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