What are the hardware requirements for K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit?

K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit requires approximately 5.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 512K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit and how large is it?

K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit is developed by abenzerps, a model with 7b 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 K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit?

K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit by abenzerps — VRAM 5.1GB, 512K context

Name: K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit
Author: abenzerps

K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit is an open-source language model by abenzerps. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 5.1GB, Context: 512K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

4-bit 4bit 512k-context Base model:ifm/k2-horizon-7b Base model:quantized:ifm/k2-ho... Conversational Custom code Dense En K2-horizon K2 horizon Long-context Mlx Mlx-lm Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/abenzerps/K2-Horizon-7B-MLX-4bit

K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/abenzerps/K2-Horizon-7B-MLX-4bit
Base Model(s)	K2 Horizon 7B IFM/K2-Horizon-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	5.1 GB
Updated	2026-09-05
Maintainer	abenzerps
Model Type	k2_horizon
Model Files	5.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	K2HorizonForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	524288
Model Max Length	524288
Transformers Version	5.13.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Vocabulary Size	250624

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Best Alternatives to K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
K2 Horizon 7B	512K / 18.5 GB	590	56
K2 Horizon 7B FP8	512K / 11.1 GB	185	6

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