alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen3-8B-8bit
From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen3-8B-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 48a0b75Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 8.2B parameters. Safetensors weights, 8.72 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

8.2B params8.72GBQwen3-8B-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams8.2BSize8.72 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit
# manifest sha256 b23bab25826e… · 8.72 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-8B-8bit mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:08 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen3-8B.

Works with

Overview

Size
8.72 GB
Weights
8.70 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
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B

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mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit#

This model mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3-8B using mlx-lm version 0.24.0.

Use with mlx#

pip install mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit")

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 · 8.72 GBWeights 8.70 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 12 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md857 B84bd2a08c01fc7a802835f643062e5623f0d9450e6e923508f4a0ccb1a3ab22f
added_tokens.json707 Bc0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680
config.json939 B832ead741bde5416c55562ed5e11fc05ac3522d74eadb6b50a03bbf00172c624
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors5.32 GB556fbe4189e25f8d46fa70022f03fde79da2a350849df65394c8a4bd7f85f5f9
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors3.38 GBeed22860833c13b0a48d467340f2c14c70e1f5f261a65d0a584e6b86980a56b3
model.safetensors.index.json77.7 KB1acea2513ccbe58e9243de471fabc0a8a9c2080795cc70a5728ede3e1050aef7
special_tokens_map.json613 B76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json11.4 MBaeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4
tokenizer_config.json9.71 KB253153d0738ceb4c668d2eff957714dd2bea0b56de772a9fdccd96cbf517e6a0
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
48a0b75b1a pinned now2026-11-15 05:08 UTC12 files · 8.72 GB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit
# manifest sha256 b23bab25826e… · 8.72 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-8B-8bit mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-8B-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-8B-8bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3-8B-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit --revision 48a0b75b1ae72503e21e1558d040bc227510ff06 --local-dir ./Qwen3-8B-8bit
transformersLoad 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-8bit", revision="48a0b75b1ae72503e21e1558d040bc227510ff06") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit", revision="48a0b75b1ae72503e21e1558d040bc227510ff06", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit --revision 48a0b75b1ae72503e21e1558d040bc227510ff06

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
84bd2a08c01fc7a802835f643062e5623f0d9450e6e923508f4a0ccb1a3ab22f
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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-8B-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 48a0b75Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit
Pinned commit
48a0b75b1ae72503e21e1558d040bc227510ff06
Manifest
Qwen3-8B-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
b23bab25826e3d0cda44c4b8cfbbccfcc1b82aa5758f8f3f898136e490a05778
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 05:08 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3-8B-8bit.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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Parent

Qwen/Qwen3-8B · 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 mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

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

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3-8B-8bit.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