alt.freeweights.granite / granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

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granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 38b48c9Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 8.8B parameters. Safetensors weights, 7.15 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

8.8B params

7.15GBgranite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bitsafetensorspermissive

FactsParams8.8BSize7.15 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive

$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit
# manifest sha256 354572699dee… · 7.15 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:09 UTC

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Quantized of granite-4.2-8b.

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vLLM exo Text Generation WebUI

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Transformers LocalAI tinygrad gpu-unlock Triton Inference Server BentoML CTranslate2 ExLlamaV2 LitServe

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mergekit TensorRT Model Optimizer

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simple-evals TruLens HELM

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promptfoo garak Guardrails NeMo Guardrails Giskard DeepTeam AI Fairness 360 Fairlearn Detoxify MCP Scanner AgentDojo ModelScan

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Overview

Size: 7.15 GB
Weights: 7.14 GB (safetensors)
Parameters: 8.8B
Formats: safetensors
Task: text generation
License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files: 10, each with a sha256
Publisher: lmstudio-community
Added: 2026-11-15
Section: alt.freeweights.granite

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Base model: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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Model card

From the publisher at commit 38b48c9. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> granite-4.2-8b by ibm-granite#

👾 LM Studio Community models highlights program. Highlighting new & noteworthy models by the community. Join the conversation on Discord.

Model creator: ibm-granite

Original model: granite-4.2-8b

MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlx_lm

Technical Details#

6-bit quantized version of granite-4.2-8b using MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon.

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to the Apple Machine Learning Research team for creating MLX.

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LM Studio is not the creator, originator, or owner of any Model featured in the Community Model Program. Each Community Model is created and provided by third parties. LM Studio does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Community Model. You understand that Community Models can produce content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or deceptive. Each Community Model is the sole responsibility of the person or entity who originated such Model. LM Studio may not monitor or control the Community Models and cannot, and does not, take responsibility for any such Model. LM Studio disclaims all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of the Community Models. LM Studio further disclaims any warranty that the Community Model will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise. You will be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of or access to the Community Models, your downloading of any Community Model, or use of any other Community Model provided by or through LM Studio.

Files

10 files · 7.15 GBWeights 7.14 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.

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File	Size	sha256
.gitattributes	1.52 KB	11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md	2.37 KB	f5098995402298243dbda0bbdfaba430ab9f2b10913a3c490056ab1105f51ef9
chat_template.jinja	9.01 KB	f0ba43f79b3cabca5e5a7584c77aec92f49feae45cdf7779c87d9fc54cd90258
config.json	1.19 KB	ad858d73f4b5656ae254086571cd2d68e4fb4b22f45f4d2fefc5874791a4301d
generation_config.json	207 B	1b9baf0a7959d31d7fb58ff6b506c27d09a73d395cadccc7e6dd1d4b7e43fd9d
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors	5.37 GB	8a7b7bc03aaefd49f8c0f36f19b1ba0cc40f0ea2091198482c04716db684f015
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors	1.78 GB	533d2a2f7b07d19799609fcede61595e697a339473202851bb34aaf4ec074a9b
model.safetensors.index.json	79.4 KB	de05067e992819782be14249ce3880547f9ff9eb6798aa89b34d416e7c214592
tokenizer.json	7.15 MB	883975314d58743726347caaf2c32ac89afd5ad57222cffbc4f052f2ab27b2d7
tokenizer_config.json	9.78 KB	856442330f3066df1f922cccbe107c4bc3b6764c791b803b475eecf88666b2a3

VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.

Upstream commit	Date	Contents
38b48c9f6b pinned now	2026-11-15 05:09 UTC	10 files · 7.15 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit
# manifest sha256 354572699dee… · 7.15 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.

$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json --dir ./granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit ./lmstudio-community__granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json

hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit --revision 38b48c9f6bf63839ed3b00a503764718877b3c3c --local-dir ./granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

transformersLoad the weights in Python.

import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit", revision="38b48c9f6bf63839ed3b00a503764718877b3c3c")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit", revision="38b48c9f6bf63839ed3b00a503764718877b3c3c", device_map="auto")

vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit --revision 38b48c9f6bf63839ed3b00a503764718877b3c3c

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License

Name: Apache License 2.0
Id: Apache-2.0
Class: Permissive
Redistribution: yes
Listing: Hosted (signed)
Decided: License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
Text in: README.md
Text sha256: f5098995402298243dbda0bbdfaba430ab9f2b10913a3c490056ab1105f51ef9
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Provenance

From:

lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 38b48c9Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Upstream: lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit
Pinned commit: 38b48c9f6bf63839ed3b00a503764718877b3c3c
Manifest: granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256: 354572699dee65df44c97c4e944fd23613002d25a333f253fc05993c46cfba45
Signature: minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created: 2026-11-15 05:09 UTC
Generator: freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns: None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
$ shasum -a 256 <file>   # compare with the Files tab

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Get it

Download

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

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Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

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minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.

Source

huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

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granite-4.2-8b-MLX-6bit

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💫 Community Model> granite-4.2-8b by ibm-granite#

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