MLX Community · First MLX build 20 Apr 2026

XORTRON.CriminalComputing.2026.27B.Instruct.NEXT-4.5bit-msq

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A 27B parameter vision and text model, with one MLX build at 5-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
27B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
5-bit
XORTRON.CriminalComputing.2026.27B.Instruct.NEXT-4.5bit-msq
Memory needed
8 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.5 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
18
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
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-vlm
$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/XORTRON.CriminalComputing.2026.27B.Instruct.NEXT-4.5bit-msq --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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XORTRON.CriminalComputing.2026.27B.Instruct.NEXT-4.5bit-msq 5-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 18

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