4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
9.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 6.0 GB
Mac memory (est.)
16 GB+
Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.
Run it
With mlx-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:
pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Astrea-R8-Chat-9B-OptiQ-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"
Details
- Base model
- HemmingwayAI/Astrea-R8-Chat-9B (quantized)
- Vendor
- HemmingwayAI
- Task
- Vision + text
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 309 in the last 30 days · 309 all time · 2 likes
- Published
- 2026-10-23 · updated 2026-10-23 (19d ago)
- Languages
- en
- Tags
- qwen3_5, optiq, quantized, mixed-precision, 4bit, 8bit, qwen3.5, chat, creative-writing, vision-language-model, apple-silicon