MLX Community · First MLX build 28 Apr 2024

dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b-256

MLX llama3

A 8B parameter model, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b-256-8bit
Memory needed
12 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
8.5 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
32
This build, last 30 days
Task
—
MLX builds
2
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 · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b-256-8bit

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b-256-4bit 4-bit 4.5 GB 8 GB 28
dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b-256-8bit 8-bit 8.5 GB 12 GB 32

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