perplexity-ai · First MLX build 21 Feb 2025

r1-1776-distill-llama-70b

MLX mit

A 71B parameter model from perplexity-ai, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
71B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
r1-1776-distill-llama-70b-8bit
Memory needed
86 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
75.0 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
38
This build, last 30 days
Task
—
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 · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/r1-1776-distill-llama-70b-8bit

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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r1-1776-distill-llama-70b-4bit 4-bit 39.7 GB 47 GB 24
r1-1776-distill-llama-70b-8bit 8-bit 75.0 GB 86 GB 38

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