MLX Community · First MLX build 29 Sept 2024
pixtral-12b
MLX
TextVision
A 13B parameter vision and text model, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 13B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit pixtral-12b-4bit
- Memory needed
- 10 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 7.1 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 202 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 10 GB at 4-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/pixtral-12b-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| pixtral-12b-4bit | 4-bit | 7.1 GB | 10 GB | 202 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pixtral-12b-8bit | 8-bit | 13.5 GB | 18 GB | 187 |
| pixtral-12b-bf16 | bf16 | 25.4 GB | 31 GB | 69 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.