TII · First MLX build 10 Jun 2025
Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit
MLX
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A 820M parameter text generation model from TII, with 4 MLX builds at 58-bit.
- Parameters
- 820M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 58-bit Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit-4bit
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 868 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 36 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 4 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at 58-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/Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
4 on mlx-community| Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit-6bit | 58-bit | 719 MB | 3 GB | 27 |
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| Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit-8bit | 58-bit | 854 MB | 3 GB | 22 |
| Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit-4bit | 58-bit | 868 MB | 3 GB | 36 |
| Falcon3-1B-Instruct-1.58bit | 58-bit | 1.4 GB | 4 GB | 21 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.