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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-chat-mlx-16bit

mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-chat-mlx-16bit
16-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
7.6B
Weights (est.)
≈ 15.2 GB
Mac memory (est.)
24 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-Qwen-7B-chat-mlx-16bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B (finetune)
Vendor
DeepSeek
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
16-bit
Licence
mit
Downloads
762 in the last 30 days · 762 all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-10-14 · updated 2026-10-14 (28d ago)
Tags
qwen2, apple-silicon, qwen

Other MLX builds of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-3bit 3-bit ≈ 3.3 GB 8 GB+ 61
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 4.3 GB 8 GB+ 2.7K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-4bit-mlx 4-bit ≈ 4.3 GB 8 GB+ 95
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 6.2 GB 16 GB+ 85
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 8.1 GB 16 GB+ 790
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-chat-mlx-16bit (this one) 16-bit ≈ 15.2 GB 24 GB+ 762
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B — ≈ 15.2 GB 24 GB+ 622
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 15.2 GB 24 GB+ 67
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-MLX — — — 0