Moonshot AI · First MLX build 28 Feb 2025
Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct
MLX
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A 16B parameter text generation model from Moonshot AI, with one MLX build at 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 16B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct-4-bit
- Memory needed
- 13 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 9.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 194 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 13 GB at 4-bit
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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/Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct-4-bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct-4-bit | 4-bit | 9.0 GB | 13 GB | 194 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.