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granite-4.1-3b-bf16

mlx-community/granite-4.1-3b-bf16
bf16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
3.4B
Weights (est.)
≈ 6.8 GB
Mac memory (est.)
16 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-4.1-3b-bf16 --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b (finetune)
Vendor
IBM · Granite
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
55 in the last 30 days · 2.2K all time · 1 likes
Published
2026-04-30 · updated 2026-04-30 (6mo ago)
Tags
granite, language, granite-4.1

Other MLX builds of ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
granite-4.1-3b-4bit 4-bit ≈ 1.9 GB 8 GB+ 1.2K
granite-4.1-3b-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 1.9 GB 8 GB+ 146
granite-4.1-3b-nvfp4 4-bit ≈ 1.9 GB 8 GB+ 42
granite-4.1-3b-5bit 5-bit ≈ 2.3 GB 8 GB+ 31
granite-4.1-3b-6bit 6-bit ≈ 2.8 GB 8 GB+ 28
granite-4.1-3b-8bit 8-bit ≈ 3.6 GB 8 GB+ 227
granite-4.1-3b-mxfp8 MXFP8 ≈ 3.6 GB 8 GB+ 42
granite-4.1-3b-bf16 (this one) bf16 ≈ 6.8 GB 16 GB+ 55