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Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B-MLX

mlx-community/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B-MLX
Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.0B
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-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B-MLX --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B (finetune)
Vendor
NousResearch
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
Not stated
Licence
llama3
Downloads
142 in the last 30 days · 1.2K all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-04-29 · updated 2025-04-29 (1y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
llama, Llama-3, instruct, finetune, chatml, gpt4, synthetic data, distillation, function calling, json mode, axolotl, roleplaying

Other MLX builds of NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B-3bit 3-bit ≈ 3.5 GB 8 GB+ 71
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B-MLX (this one) — ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 142