4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
2.7B
Weights (est.)
≈ 1.5 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/Macaw-OptiQ-4bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- badtheorylabs/Macaw (quantized)
- Vendor
- badtheorylabs
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- lfm-open-license-v1.0
- Downloads
- 61 in the last 30 days · 672 all time · 2 likes
- Published
- 2026-08-06 · updated 2026-09-15 (1mo ago)
- Languages
- en
- Tags
- lfm2, optiq, quantized, 4bit, mixed-precision, agent, tool-calling, on-device, apple-silicon