Tencent · First MLX build 4 Aug 2025
Hunyuan-0.5B-Instruct
MLX
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A 539M parameter text generation model from Tencent, with one MLX build at 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 539M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit Hunyuan-0.5B-Instruct-8bit
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 573 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 20 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 3 GB at 8-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
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64 GB
128 GB
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/Hunyuan-0.5B-Instruct-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Hunyuan-0.5B-Instruct-8bit | 8-bit | 573 MB | 3 GB | 20 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.