What are the hardware requirements for Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit?

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit requires approximately 19.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit and how large is it?

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 30b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1426. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 19.4GB

Name: Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 19.4GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.45, ELO: 1426.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Muse-Glimmer-30B-4bit

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1426 vs 1272 (so35) 12.1%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Muse-Glimmer-30B-4bit
Base Model(s)	Muse Glimmer 30B meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	19.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-12
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	muse_glimmer
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.4 GB: 2-of-4 5.3 GB: 3-of-4 3.4 GB: 4-of-4
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	MuseGlimmerForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.15.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad\|>

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Best Alternatives to Muse Glimmer 30B 4bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...e Glimmer 30B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	0K / 22.2 GB	0	7
Muse Glimmer 30B	0K / 59.6 GB	0	1052
Muse Glimmer NVFP4	0K / 19.7 GB	40	5
Muse Glimmer 30B Heretic	0K / 59.2 GB	0	8
Muse Glimmer 30B Heretic	0K / 59.6 GB	0	5
Muse Glimmer 30B Bf16	0K / 15.1 GB	0	6
...e Glimmer 30B Abliterated BF16	0K / 59.6 GB	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B Uncensored	0K / 59.6 GB	0	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/Muse-Glimmer-30B-4bit.