What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX?

LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX requires approximately 7.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX and how large is it?

LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX is developed by mlx-community, a model with 8b 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 LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX?

LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX by mlx-community — VRAM 7.3GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX
Author: mlx-community

LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 7.3GB, Context: 125K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-8B-A1B-6bit-MLX

LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 8B A1B 6bit MLX
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-8B-A1B-6bit-MLX
Base Model(s)	LFM2 8B A1B LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	7.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2_moe
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 1.9 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	6bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2MoeForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.56.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536

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