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MAI-UI-8B-bf16

mlx-community/MAI-UI-8B-bf16
bf16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.8B
Weights (est.)
≈ 17.5 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/MAI-UI-8B-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
Tongyi-MAI/MAI-UI-8B (finetune)
Vendor
Tongyi-MAI
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
27 in the last 30 days · 299 all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-03-20 · updated 2026-03-20 (7mo ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen3_vl, mlx-vlm, apple-silicon, vision-language-model, mai-ui, grounding, mobile-navigation, computer-use, agent, bf16

Other MLX builds of Tongyi-MAI/MAI-UI-8B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
MAI-UI-8B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 6.9 GB 16 GB+ 35
MAI-UI-8B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 9.0 GB 16 GB+ 32
MAI-UI-8B-bf16 (this one) bf16 ≈ 17.5 GB 24 GB+ 27