nex-agi · First MLX build 11 Sept 2026

Nex-N2.5-mini

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A 35B parameter vision and text model from nex-agi, with 2 MLX builds at 4-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
35B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Nex-N2.5-mini-OptiQ-4bit
Memory needed
25 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
20.4 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
181
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
2
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

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/Nex-N2.5-mini-OptiQ-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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Nex-N2.5-mini-oQ4 4-bit 19.5 GB 24 GB 70
Nex-N2.5-mini-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit 20.4 GB 25 GB 181

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.