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LFM2.5-8B-A1B-MLX-8bit

mlx-community/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-MLX-8bit
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.5B
Weights (est.)
≈ 9.0 GB
Mac memory (est.)
16 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/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-MLX-8bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B (quantized)
Vendor
LiquidAI
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
8-bit
Licence
lfm1.0
Downloads
118 in the last 30 days · 2.4K all time · 6 likes
Published
2026-05-29 · updated 2026-08-13 (3mo ago)
Languages
en, ar, zh, fr, de, ja, ko, pt, es
Tags
lfm2_moe, lfm2

Other MLX builds of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
LFM2.5-8B-A1B-MLX-4bit 4-bit ≈ 4.8 GB 8 GB+ 1.9K
LFM2.5-8B-A1B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 4.8 GB 8 GB+ 461
LFM2.5-8B-A1B-MLX-8bit (this one) 8-bit ≈ 9.0 GB 16 GB+ 118