MLX Community · First MLX build 19 Feb 2025

paligemma2-28b-mix-224

MLX TextVision gemma

A 28B parameter vision and text model, with 5 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
28B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
6-bit
paligemma2-28b-mix-224-6bit
Memory needed
28 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
23.0 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
28
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
5
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/paligemma2-28b-mix-224-6bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
paligemma2-28b-mix-224-3bit 3-bit 12.7 GB 17 GB 20
paligemma2-28b-mix-224-4bit 4-bit 16.1 GB 21 GB 13
paligemma2-28b-mix-224-6bit 6-bit 23.0 GB 28 GB 28
paligemma2-28b-mix-224-8bit 8-bit 29.8 GB 36 GB 27
paligemma2-28b-mix-224-bf16 bf16 55.3 GB 64 GB 28

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