MLX Community · First MLX build 30 Apr 2025

InternVL3-9B

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A 7.9B parameter vision and text model, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
7.9B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
InternVL3-9B-4bit
Memory needed
8 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.9 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
56
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
4
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/InternVL3-9B-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
InternVL3-9B-4bit 4-bit 4.9 GB 8 GB 56
InternVL3-9B-8bit 8-bit — — 22
InternVL3-9B-6bit 6-bit — — 16
InternVL3-9B-bf16 bf16 — — 14

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