MLX Community · First MLX build 30 Apr 2026
talkie-box
MLX
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A 13B parameter text generation model, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 13B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit talkie-box-4bit
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 8.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 26 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 11 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-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/talkie-box-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| talkie-box-4bit | 4-bit | 8.0 GB | 11 GB | 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| talkie-box-6bit | 6-bit | 11.2 GB | 15 GB | 15 |
| talkie-box-8bit | 8-bit | 14.4 GB | 19 GB | 21 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.