TII · First MLX build 10 Jun 2025

Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit

MLX Text falcon-llm-license

A 4.9B parameter text generation model from TII, with 4 MLX builds at 58-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
4.9B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
58-bit
Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit-6bit
Memory needed
6 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
3.0 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
43
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/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit-6bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
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Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit-6bit 58-bit 3.0 GB 6 GB 43
Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit-8bit 58-bit 3.2 GB 6 GB 36
Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit 58-bit 4.0 GB 7 GB 38
Falcon3-10B-Instruct-1.58bit-4bit 58-bit 5.2 GB 8 GB 43

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