alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit

Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 05f38c1Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 27.4B parameters. Safetensors weights, 22.8 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

27.4B params22.8GBQwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams27.4BSize22.8 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
# manifest sha256 168da8f698b7… · 22.8 GB · 17 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bitLast check: 2026-11-14 21:29 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen3.8-27B.

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Overview

Size
22.8 GB
Weights
22.8 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
27.4B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
17, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-14
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
Lineage

Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Where these bytes come from
Publisher at the pinned commit→You

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From sourcehuggingface.co2026-11-14 21:29 UTCpassed

Model card

From the publisher at commit 05f38c1. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> Qwen3.8-27B by Qwen#

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Model creator: Qwen

Original model: Qwen3.8-27B

MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlx_vlm

Technical Details#

6-bit quantized version of Qwen3.8-27B using MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon.

Special thanks#

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

Disclaimers#

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

17 files · 22.8 GBWeights 22.8 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 17 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md2.19 KB4716cde8a3be84577fffb6aa15ce04498920fa516ab186e1281b0689b7ccd70a
chat_template.jinja8.95 KBc3cf9e34abf4f9e36c2d72165aa9c132d3e2a725b6c2586aaa3a8af9d7a81041
config.json4.93 KBf2490d237e42fc8418ee62b7416e360785b7de308f43d8f794ccf4f185bdeec9
generation_config.json202 Be70c136c1b78ddc1fb0905bac8e733a4dc448d4f852a5dd75143fffc70be550e
model-00001-of-00005.safetensors5.36 GB39a48bfd79609b341f4ed420cdc92e3edce316cd3f5ef7db2dcd371f48c90588
model-00002-of-00005.safetensors5.34 GBd9011deb397afa986754a8abe3872b87a21c2bd6d7f9ed50bd8cba3890b782f9
model-00003-of-00005.safetensors5.33 GB760d392182ee77093df96328110596e230a9f4cab37febd70ae29173f7ff7e01
model-00004-of-00005.safetensors5.33 GB513fbeb37662c2b6020ebe4d61e5e9192f7abb5970aef0cd291b7a55f445c23e
model-00005-of-00005.safetensors1.41 GB6ed59540691cfb8f8adeaa186506d3fc44b0f0ce392c7caf59116bb6ae580c01
model.safetensors.index.json218 KBdafc019bb8416ae2a289f24c598473b5531b14ca87a0cabfd9b0d6aec67bffc1
preprocessor_config.json390 B27225450ac9c6529872ee1924fcb0962ff5634834f817040f444118116f4e516
processor_config.json991 B45fc17c8dd2474af6b493b52483c26c0584b0082d368c480f9fa611e73070040
tokenizer.json20.0 MB06b9509352d2af50381ab2247e083b80d32d5c0aba91c272ca9ff729b6a0e523
tokenizer_config.json10.4 KB47a7a8371379b07650b22f3c8a78c32fed85c4e35ea88e3da0c4b7a7611e8082
video_preprocessor_config.json385 B7768af27c1fafa9cc9011c1dc20067e03f8915e03b63504550e11d5066986d13
vocab.json6.72 MBce99b4cb2983d118806ce0a8b777a35b093e2000a503ebde25853284c9dfa003
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
05f38c1f39 pinned now manifest updated, same commit2026-11-14 21:29 UTC17 files · 22.8 GB
05f38c1f392026-11-14 21:29 UTC17 files · 22.8 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
# manifest sha256 168da8f698b7… · 22.8 GB · 17 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-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/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json --dir ./Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit ./lmstudio-community__Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit --revision 05f38c1f39e2f39619653616fe8e96a5d676358e --local-dir ./Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit", revision="05f38c1f39e2f39619653616fe8e96a5d676358e") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit", revision="05f38c1f39e2f39619653616fe8e96a5d676358e", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit --revision 05f38c1f39e2f39619653616fe8e96a5d676358e

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. 2026-11-14
Text in
README.md
Text sha256
4716cde8a3be84577fffb6aa15ce04498920fa516ab186e1281b0689b7ccd70a
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bitDate: 2026-11-14Commit: 05f38c1Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
Pinned commit
05f38c1f39e2f39619653616fe8e96a5d676358e
Manifest
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
168da8f698b711635b99321097250d3e2da2d8257d7865e2278f7b9c9e01fc2b
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-14 21:29 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

Model tree

Parent

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · this model is a quantization of it

No model in the catalog names this one as its parent.

Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

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

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen
From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa>Subject: Aurora-Code-1
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923
From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon>Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct
From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower>Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA
From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF