What are the hardware requirements for Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit?

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit requires approximately 9.5 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 8bit and how large is it?

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit 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 8bit?

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit 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 8bit by ornith-ai — VRAM 9.5GB

Name: Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit
Author: ornith-ai

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit is an open-source language model by ornith-ai. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 9.5GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

8-bit 8bit Conversational En Mlx Quantized Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX-8bit

Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ornith 1.5 9B MLX 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX-8bit
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	9.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-22
Maintainer	ornith-ai
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 4.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
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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