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Jan-nano-8bit

mlx-community/Jan-nano-8bit
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
4.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 4.3 GB
Mac memory (est.)
8 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/Jan-nano-8bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
Menlo/Jan-nano (quantized)
Vendor
Menlo
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
8-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
64 in the last 30 days · 1.5K all time · 5 likes
Published
2025-06-16 · updated 2025-06-16 (1y ago)
Tags
qwen3

Other MLX builds of Menlo/Jan-nano

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Jan-nano-8bit (this one) 8-bit ≈ 4.3 GB 8 GB+ 64
Jan-nano-4B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 8.0 GB 16 GB+ 41