openai-community · First MLX build 9 Oct 2025

gpt2

MLX Text mit

A 124M parameter text generation model from openai-community, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
124M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
gpt2-base-mlx
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
498 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
670
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
1
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-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/gpt2-base-mlx --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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gpt2-base-mlx Unstated 498 MB 3 GB 670

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