MLX Community · First MLX build 31 May 2026
MIST-1-70B
MLX
Text llama3.1
A 71B parameter text generation model, with 2 MLX builds at 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 71B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit MIST-1-70B-8bit-MLX
- Memory needed
- 86 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 75.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 55 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 86 GB at 8-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-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/MIST-1-70B-8bit-MLX --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
2 on mlx-community| MIST-1-70B-8bit-MLX | 8-bit | 75.0 GB | 86 GB | 55 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIST-1-70B-MLX | Unstated | 141 GB | 160 GB | 33 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.