ricoh-ai · First MLX build 30 Mar 2026

Qwen-3-VL-Ricoh-8B-20260227

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A 8.8B parameter vision and text model from ricoh-ai, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
8.8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Qwen-3-VL-Ricoh-8B-20260227-MLX-4bit
Memory needed
9 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
5.8 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
50
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/Qwen-3-VL-Ricoh-8B-20260227-MLX-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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Qwen-3-VL-Ricoh-8B-20260227-MLX-4bit 4-bit 5.8 GB 9 GB 50
Qwen-3-VL-Ricoh-8B-20260227-MLX-8bit 8-bit 9.9 GB 14 GB 33

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