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bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-6bit

mlx-community/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-6bit
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
593M
Weights (est.)
≈ 495 MB
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/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-6bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T (quantized)
Vendor
Microsoft · Phi
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
mit
Downloads
39 in the last 30 days · 739 all time · 0 likes
Published
2025-06-10 · updated 2025-06-10 (1y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
bitnet, chat, large-language-model, custom_code

Other MLX builds of microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 495 MB 8 GB+ 39
bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-4bit 4-bit ≈ 631 MB 8 GB+ 165
bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-8bit 8-bit ≈ 662 MB 8 GB+ 65
bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T 8-bit ≈ 1.2 GB 8 GB+ 265