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Fara1.5-27B-OptiQ-4bit

mlx-community/Fara1.5-27B-OptiQ-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
27B
Weights (est.)
≈ 16.1 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Fara1.5-27B-OptiQ-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
microsoft/Fara1.5-27B (quantized) · Fara1.5 27B on the radar →
Vendor
Microsoft · Phi
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
mit
Downloads
187 in the last 30 days · 1.1K all time · 2 likes
Published
2026-07-24 · updated 2026-10-18 (24d ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen3_5, optiq, computer-use, web-agent, agent