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medgemma-4b-it-bf16

mlx-community/medgemma-4b-it-bf16
Vision + text · transformers
bf16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
5.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 9.9 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/medgemma-4b-it-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
google/medgemma-4b-pt (finetune)
Vendor
Google · Gemma
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
health-ai-developer-foundations
Downloads
48 in the last 30 days · 6.0K all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-05-21 · updated 2025-06-09 (1y ago)
Tags
gemma3, medical, radiology, clinical-reasoning, dermatology, pathology, ophthalmology, chest-x-ray

Other MLX builds of google/medgemma-4b-pt

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
medgemma-4b-it-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.0 GB 8 GB+ 145
medgemma-4b-it-6bit 6-bit ≈ 4.2 GB 8 GB+ 40
medgemma-4b-it-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.8 GB 8 GB+ 87
medgemma-4b-it-bf16 (this one) bf16 ≈ 9.9 GB 16 GB+ 48