TII · First MLX build 10 Jun 2025

Falcon-E-1B-Instruct

MLX Text falcon-llm-license

A 814M parameter text generation model from TII, with 4 MLX builds, from 6-bit to 58-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
814M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
58-bit
Falcon-E-1B-Instruct-1.58bit
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
665 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
35
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
4
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/Falcon-E-1B-Instruct-1.58bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
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Falcon-E-1B-Instruct-6bit 6-bit 351 MB 3 GB 20
Falcon-E-1B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit 464 MB 3 GB 30
Falcon-E-1B-Instruct-8bit 8-bit 465 MB 3 GB 20
Falcon-E-1B-Instruct-1.58bit 58-bit 665 MB 3 GB 35

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