MLX Community · First MLX build 5 Nov 2026

Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ

MLX TextVision apache-2.0 New

A 19B parameter vision and text model, with one MLX build at 4-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
19B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit
Memory needed
15 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
11.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
430
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
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-vlm
$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit 11.3 GB 15 GB 430

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