What are the hardware requirements for Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit?

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit requires approximately 5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit and how large is it?

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit is developed by ornith-ai, a model with 9b 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 Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit?

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit by ornith-ai — VRAM 5GB

Name: Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit
Author: ornith-ai

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit is an open-source language model by ornith-ai. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 5GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.39.

4-bit 4bit Conversational En Mlx Quantized Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX-4bit

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX-4bit
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	5 GB
Updated	2026-08-21
Maintainer	ornith-ai
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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