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granite-3.3-2b-instruct-6bit

mlx-community/granite-3.3-2b-instruct-6bit
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
2.5B
Weights (est.)
≈ 2.1 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/granite-3.3-2b-instruct-6bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
ibm-granite/granite-3.3-2b-instruct (quantized)
Vendor
IBM · Granite
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
21 in the last 30 days · 257 all time · 0 likes
Published
2025-04-16 · updated 2025-04-16 (1y ago)
Tags
granite, language, granite-3.3

Other MLX builds of ibm-granite/granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
granite-3.3-2b-instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 1.4 GB 8 GB+ 768
granite-3.3-2b-instruct-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 2.1 GB 8 GB+ 21
granite-3.3-2b-instruct-8bit 8-bit ≈ 2.7 GB 8 GB+ 89
granite-3.3-2b-instruct-fp16 fp16 ≈ 5.1 GB 8 GB+ 32