MLX Community · First MLX build 12 Mar 2026
translategemma-12b-it
MLX
TextVision gemma
A 13B parameter vision and text model, with one MLX build at MXFP4.
- Parameters
- 13B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- MXFP4 translategemma-12b-it-mlx-mxfp4
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 8.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 56 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 11 GB at MXFP4
8 GB
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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/translategemma-12b-it-mlx-mxfp4 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"
MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| translategemma-12b-it-mlx-mxfp4 | MXFP4 | 8.0 GB | 11 GB | 56 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.