MLX Community · First MLX build 2 Apr 2025
snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 568M parameter sentence similarity model, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 568M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-8bit
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 604 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 389 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Sentence similarity Text
- MLX builds
- 4 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 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 · Hugging Face CLI$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-8bitMLX builds
4 on mlx-community| snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-4bit | 4-bit | 320 MB | 3 GB | 80 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-6bit | 6-bit | 462 MB | 3 GB | 70 |
| snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-8bit | 8-bit | 604 MB | 3 GB | 389 |
| snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-bf16 | bf16 | 1.1 GB | 4 GB | 72 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.