NVIDIA · First MLX build 21 Mar 2026
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16
MLX
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A 4B parameter text generation model from NVIDIA, with one MLX build at bf16.
- Parameters
- 4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- bf16 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 7.9 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 290 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 11 GB at bf16
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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/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 | bf16 | 7.9 GB | 11 GB | 290 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.