MLX Community · First MLX build 25 Aug 2026
Ornith-1.5-9B-OptiQ
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 9B parameter text generation model, with one MLX build at 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 9B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Ornith-1.5-9B-OptiQ-4bit
- Memory needed
- 8 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 5.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 914 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 8 GB at 4-bit
8 GB
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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/Ornith-1.5-9B-OptiQ-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Ornith-1.5-9B-OptiQ-4bit | 4-bit | 5.0 GB | 8 GB | 914 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.