MLX Community · First MLX build 11 Aug 2026

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-DSpark

MLX Text openmdw-1.1

A 968M parameter text generation model, with one MLX build at bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
968M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
bf16
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-DSpark-bf16
Memory needed
5 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
1.9 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
176
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-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-DSpark-bf16 --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-DSpark-bf16 bf16 1.9 GB 5 GB 176

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