From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-8B-6bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 35a9971Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Text generation model with 8.2B parameters. Safetensors weights, 6.67 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
8.2B params 6.67 GB Qwen3-8B-6bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 8.2B Size 6.67 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive
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$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit
# manifest sha256 cfaa2e0bb238… · 6.67 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-8B-6bit mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bitHosted (signed) mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit Last check: 2026-11-15 05:18 UTC
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Size 6.67 GB
Weights 6.66 GB (safetensors)
Parameters 8.2B
Formats safetensors
Task text generation
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 12, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
Section alt.freeweights.qwen Lineage
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Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
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This model mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3-8B using mlx-lm version 0.24.0 .
Use with mlx#
from mlx_lm import load, generate
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit")
prompt = "hello"
if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages, add_generation_prompt=True
)
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) Files 12 files · 6.67 GB Weights 6.66 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 12 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.57 KB 34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930 README.md 857 B 983ec548c1024ff87dd241c29a4d6f328bc7b941f49a37a2d445f25a54b0b42c added_tokens.json 707 B c0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680 config.json 939 B 77f5608ed98f9839d729d37afc95095252640be9bcdc16fbc793070e2a822fc5 merges.txt 1.67 MB 8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5 model-00001-of-00002.safetensors 5.37 GB d38c4959dc5bd28e46d99bcde1d5a332170064af4dcb5e9505490c6950cd5922 model-00002-of-00002.safetensors 1.29 GB 73e89e0ab0c54c70c5bf312e77a52f89877c62b2dc9cff60d25bc16328c31735 model.safetensors.index.json 77.7 KB 261fcaa70f8af793a22933f40ab214b6337c4fcb699c2891d7b6bb96f753792f special_tokens_map.json 613 B 76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd tokenizer.json 11.4 MB aeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4 tokenizer_config.json 9.71 KB 253153d0738ceb4c668d2eff957714dd2bea0b56de772a9fdccd96cbf517e6a0 vocab.json 2.78 MB ca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
Versions Each time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commit Date Contents 35a99712f9 pinned now 2026-11-15 05:18 UTC 12 files · 6.67 GB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit
# manifest sha256 cfaa2e0bb238… · 6.67 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-8B-6bit mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bitfw.py Checks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-8B-6bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-8B-6bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3-8B-6bit.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit --revision 35a99712f90d6c2c9a2407a3857e104a46edd9e6 --local-dir ./Qwen3-8B-6bittransformers Load the weights in Python.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit", revision="35a99712f90d6c2c9a2407a3857e104a46edd9e6")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit", revision="35a99712f90d6c2c9a2407a3857e104a46edd9e6", device_map="auto")vLLM Serve an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit --revision 35a99712f90d6c2c9a2407a3857e104a46edd9e6License 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 983ec548c1024ff87dd241c29a4d6f328bc7b941f49a37a2d445f25a54b0b42c Terms gate No extra terms beyond the license. Read the license text
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Provenance From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-8B-6bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 35a9971Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Upstream mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit Pinned commit 35a99712f90d6c2c9a2407a3857e104a46edd9e6 Manifest Qwen3-8B-6bit.json · .minisig Manifest sha256 cfaa2e0bb238576d43b528b3cb603ec8f07b2656f6034841e5d2b5c1dc122af1 Signature minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B Created 2026-11-15 05:18 UTC Generator freeweights-manifest/0.1.0 Takedowns None. How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm Qwen3-8B-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
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$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bitOpen in Freeweights Studio Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.
2.2B params 4.37 GB Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen safetensors permissive Facts Params 2.2B Size 4.37 GB Formats safetensors Task visual question answering License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/BAAI> Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen 34.7B params 69.3 GB Aurora-Code-1 safetensors permissive Facts Params 34.7B Size 69.3 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa> Subject: Aurora-Code-1 7.6B params 30.6 GB bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923 safetensors permissive Facts Params 7.6B Size 30.6 GB Formats safetensors Task feature extraction License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/BAAI> Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923 9.3B params 18.5 GB BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct safetensors permissive Facts Params 9.3B Size 18.5 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon> Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct qwen 658 MB Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA safetensors permissive Facts Params not stated Size 658 MB Formats safetensors Task not tagged License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower> Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA qwen 447 GB bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF gguf permissive Facts Params not stated Size 447 GB Formats gguf Task image text to text License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski> Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF
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