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Inkling-mlx-4bit

mlx-community/Inkling-mlx-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
947B
Weights (est.)
≈ 549 GB
Mac memory (est.)
> 512 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/Inkling-mlx-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
thinkingmachines/Inkling (finetune)
Vendor
thinkingmachines
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
270 in the last 30 days · 4.2K all time · 7 likes
Published
2026-07-16 · updated 2026-07-24 (3mo ago)
Tags
inkling_mm_model, inkling, multimodal, text-generation

Other MLX builds of thinkingmachines/Inkling

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Inkling-mlx-2bit 2-bit ≈ 315 GB 512 GB+ 237
Inkling-mlx-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 549 GB > 512 GB 270