mesolitica · First MLX build 4 Jun 2026
mallam-5b-20k-instructions-v2
MLX
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A 5B parameter text generation model from mesolitica, with 2 MLX builds, from MXFP4 to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 5B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- MXFP4 mallam-5b-20k-instructions-v2-mxfp4
- Memory needed
- 6 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 2.8 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 28 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 2 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 6 GB at MXFP4
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-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/mallam-5b-20k-instructions-v2-mxfp4 --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
2 on mlx-community| mallam-5b-20k-instructions-v2-mxfp4 | MXFP4 | 2.8 GB | 6 GB | 28 |
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| mallam-5b-20k-instructions-v2-8bit | 8-bit | 5.3 GB | 8 GB | 21 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.