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ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-OptiQ-4bit

mlx-community/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-OptiQ-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
27B
Weights (est.)
≈ 16.1 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/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-OptiQ-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B (quantized)
Vendor
bottlecapai
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
357 in the last 30 days · 3.8K all time · 4 likes
Published
2026-07-14 · updated 2026-10-30 (12d ago)
Tags
qwen3_5, quantized, mixed-precision, 4bit, 8bit, optiq, apple-silicon, vision-language, qwen3_6, token-efficient, efficient-thinking

Other MLX builds of bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-OptiQ-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 357
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-mlx-6Bit 6-bit ≈ 21.9 GB 32 GB+ 166