MLX Community · First MLX build 15 May 2024

paligemma-3b-mix-224

MLX TextVision gemma

A 2.9B parameter vision and text model, with one MLX build at 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
2.9B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
paligemma-3b-mix-224-8bit
Memory needed
6 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
3.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
495
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/paligemma-3b-mix-224-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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paligemma-3b-mix-224-8bit 8-bit 3.1 GB 6 GB 495

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