MLX Community · First MLX build 3 Jun 2026

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-OptiQ

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A 4B parameter text generation model, with one MLX build at 4-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
4B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-OptiQ-4bit
Memory needed
5 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
2.2 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
328
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/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-OptiQ-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit 2.2 GB 5 GB 328

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