MLX Community · First MLX build 5 Mar 2025
aya-vision-8b
MLX
TextVision cc-by-nc-4.0
A 8.6B parameter vision and text model, with 5 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 8.6B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit aya-vision-8b-8bit
- Memory needed
- 13 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 9.6 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 62 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 5 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 13 GB at 8-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
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-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
5 on mlx-community| aya-vision-8b-3bit | 3-bit | 4.4 GB | 7 GB | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aya-vision-8b-4bit | 4-bit | 5.4 GB | 9 GB | 52 |
| aya-vision-8b-6bit | 6-bit | 7.5 GB | 11 GB | 30 |
| aya-vision-8b-8bit | 8-bit | 9.6 GB | 13 GB | 62 |
| aya-vision-8b-bf16 | bf16 | 17.3 GB | 22 GB | 36 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.