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MiniCPM5-2B-mlx-4Bit

mlx-community/MiniCPM5-2B-mlx-4Bit
Text generation · transformers
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
2.5B
Weights (est.)
≈ 1.4 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/MiniCPM5-2B-mlx-4Bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B (quantized)
Vendor
openbmb
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
5.6K in the last 30 days · 14K all time · 3 likes
Published
2026-09-10 · updated 2026-09-10 (2mo ago)
Languages
en, zh
Tags
llama, minicpm, minicpm5, long-context, tool-calling, on-device, edge-ai, mlx-my-repo

Other MLX builds of openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
MiniCPM5-2B-mlx-4Bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 1.4 GB 8 GB+ 5.6K
MiniCPM5-2B-chat-mlx-4bit 4-bit ≈ 1.4 GB 8 GB+ 1.0K
MiniCPM5-2B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 1.4 GB 8 GB+ 877
MiniCPM5-2B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 2.7 GB 8 GB+ 1.8K
MiniCPM5-2B-chat-mlx-16bit 16-bit ≈ 5.0 GB 8 GB+ 434
MiniCPM5-2B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 5.0 GB 8 GB+ 147