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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-6bit

mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-6bit
Text generation · transformers
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
71B
Weights (est.)
≈ 57.3 GB
Mac memory (est.)
96 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-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-6bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B (quantized)
Vendor
DeepSeek
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
—
Downloads
219 in the last 30 days · 30K all time · 4 likes
Published
2025-01-21 · updated 2025-02-26 (1y ago)
Tags
llama

Other MLX builds of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-3bit 3-bit ≈ 30.9 GB 48 GB+ 223
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 39.7 GB 48 GB+ 1.7K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 57.3 GB 96 GB+ 219
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 75.0 GB 96 GB+ 1.0K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B — ≈ 141 GB 192 GB+ 178