MLX Community · First MLX build 19 Mar 2025

MiniCPM3-4B-bfloat16

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 4.3B parameter text generation model, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
4.3B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
MiniCPM3-4B-bfloat16
Memory needed
12 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
8.5 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
31
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
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-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/MiniCPM3-4B-bfloat16 --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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MiniCPM3-4B-bfloat16 Unstated 8.5 GB 12 GB 31

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