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Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-bf16

mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-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/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
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Vendor
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Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
172 in the last 30 days · 1.8K all time · 3 likes
Published
2025-10-14 · updated 2025-10-14 (1y ago)
Tags
qwen3_vl