8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
1.5B
Weights (est.)
≈ 1.6 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/Llama-Guard-3-1B-chat-mlx-8bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B (quantized)
- Vendor
- Meta · Llama
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 8-bit
- Licence
- llama3.2
- Downloads
- 267 in the last 30 days · 267 all time · 0 likes
- Published
- 2026-10-14 · updated 2026-10-14 (28d ago)
- Tags
- llama, apple-silicon, facebook, meta, pytorch, llama-3
Other MLX builds of meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama-Guard-3-1B-chat-mlx-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 843 MB | 8 GB+ | 294 |
| Llama-Guard-3-1B-chat-mlx-8bit (this one) | 8-bit | ≈ 1.6 GB | 8 GB+ | 267 |
| Llama-Guard-3-1B-chat-mlx-16bit | 16-bit | ≈ 3.0 GB | 8 GB+ | 334 |