mPLUG · First MLX build 21 Sept 2025
GUI-Owl-7B
MLX
TextVision mit
A 8.3B parameter vision and text model from mPLUG, with 3 MLX builds, from 6-bit to 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 8.3B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 6-bit GUI-Owl-7B-6bit
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 7.6 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 41 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 11 GB at 6-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-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/GUI-Owl-7B-6bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| GUI-Owl-7B-6bit | 6-bit | 7.6 GB | 11 GB | 41 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUI-Owl-7B-bf16 | bf16 | 16.6 GB | 21 GB | 29 |
| GUI-Owl-7B-4bit | 4-bit | — | — | 29 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.