What are the hardware requirements for D1 3B MLX 8bit?

D1 3B MLX 8bit requires approximately 3.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed D1 3B MLX 8bit and how large is it?

D1 3B MLX 8bit is developed by LiquidAI, a model with 3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate D1 3B MLX 8bit?

D1 3B MLX 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

D1 3B MLX 8bit by LiquidAI — VRAM 3.7GB

Name: D1 3B MLX 8bit
Author: LiquidAI

D1 3B MLX 8bit is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.7GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Arxiv:2511.23404 8-bit 8bit Ar Base model:liquidai/d1-3b Base model:quantized:liquidai/... Calibration Classification Conversational Custom code De Decision Edge En Es Fr Hi Id Image-text-to-text It Ja Ko Lfm2.5 Lfm2 vl Liquid Mlx Mlx-vlm Multimodal Pl Pt Quantized Region:us Ru Safetensors System-one Th Vi Vision Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/d1-3B-MLX-8bit

D1 3B MLX 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	D1 3B MLX 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/d1-3B-MLX-8bit
Base Model(s)	D1 3B LiquidAI/d1-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.7 GB
Updated	2026-10-15
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm2_vl
Model Files	3.7 GB
Supported Languages	ar zh en fr de hi id it ja ko pl pt ru es th vi
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2VlForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	5.14.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>

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