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Apertus-v1.5-8B-text-8bit
TyKaoz/Apertus-v1.5-8B-text-8bit
Apertus-v1.5-8B-text-8bit is a text generation model from TyKaoz. Use it when you need the model to write or continue text. It is set up for mlx. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
8-bit MLX quantization of swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B, for Apple Silicon (~8.0 GB). Text branch of the omni checkpoint (the image and audio towers and codebooks are not included), extracted from the original weights and…
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Apertus v1.5 8B text — 8-bit MLX
8-bit MLX quantization of
swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B, for Apple Silicon (~8.0 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-lm
mlx_lm.generate \
--model TyKaoz/Apertus-v1.5-8B-text-8bit \
--prompt "Explique la quantization en une phrase." \
--max-tokens 200
| Base | Tool | Precision | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B | mlx-lm | 8-bit · group 64 | ~8.0 GB |
By TyKaoz — privacy-first native macOS LLM chat client. Apache 2.0, inherited from the base model, with the Apertus acceptable use policy.
- Task
- Text Generation
- Library
- mlx
- Type
- apertus
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- en, fr, de, it, rm
- Created
- Sep 18, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 18, 2026