NVIDIA · First MLX build 28 Aug 2025
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2
MLX
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A 1.9B parameter text generation model from NVIDIA, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 6-bit.
- Parameters
- 1.9B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-4bits
- Memory needed
- 4 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 1.2 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 474 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 2 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 4 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/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-4bits --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
2 on mlx-community| NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-4bits | 4-bit | 1.2 GB | 4 GB | 474 |
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| NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-6bit | 6-bit | 1.9 GB | 5 GB | 335 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.