TII · First MLX build 14 Jun 2025
Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct
MLX
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A 521M parameter text generation model from TII, with 5 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 521M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-4bit
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 294 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 78 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 5 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at 4-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
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/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
5 on mlx-community| Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-4bit | 4-bit | 294 MB | 3 GB | 78 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-5bit | 5-bit | 359 MB | 3 GB | 42 |
| Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-6bit | 6-bit | 424 MB | 3 GB | 34 |
| Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-8bit | 8-bit | 554 MB | 3 GB | 31 |
| Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-bf16 | bf16 | 1.0 GB | 4 GB | 21 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.