TyKaoz/Apertus-v1.5-8B-text-6bit
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Apertus v1.5 8B text — 6-bit MLX
6-bit MLX quantization of `swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B`, for Apple Silicon (~6.1 GB). Text branch of the omni checkpoint (the image and audio towers and codebooks are not included), extracted from the original weights and quantized with mlx-lm. xIELU activation, 262144-token context, the source tokenizer and chat template. Apertus is the fully open model of the Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS).
Usage
pip install -U mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate \
--model TyKaoz/Apertus-v1.5-8B-text-6bit \
--prompt "Explique la quantization en une phrase." \
--max-tokens 200By [TyKaoz](https://www.tykaoz.bzh) — privacy-first native macOS LLM chat client. Apache 2.0, inherited from the base model, with the Apertus acceptable use policy.
