What are the hardware requirements for QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit?

QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit requires approximately 18.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit and how large is it?

QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 32b 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 QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit?

QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit by mlx-community — VRAM 18.5GB, 128K context

Name: QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit
Author: mlx-community

QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 32b LLM, VRAM: 18.5GB, Context: 128K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

4-bit 4bit Base model:quantized:sm54/qwq-... Base model:sm54/qwq-deepseek-r... Conversational Endpoints compatible Merge Mergekit Mlx Mlx-my-repo Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/QwQ-DeepSeek-R1-SkyT1-Flash-Lightest-32B-mlx-4Bit

QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	QwQ DeepSeek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B Mlx 4Bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/QwQ-DeepSeek-R1-SkyT1-Flash-Lightest-32B-mlx-4Bit
Base Model(s)	...ek R1 SkyT1 Flash Lightest 32B sm54/QwQ-DeepSeek-R1-SkyT1-Flash-Lightest-32B
Model Size	32b
Required VRAM	18.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.4 GB: 3-of-4 2.4 GB: 4-of-4
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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