Demo for the MLX build of Qwen3.8-27B. Cloud chat uses official Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B via Hugging Face Inference Providers — the same architecture, aligned weights. Exact uncensored MLX quants stay on your Mac.
Repo root is the recommended 4-bit build (~15 GB; plan for 24 GB unified memory). Needs mlx-vlm >= 0.6.13.
python -m pip install -U "mlx-vlm>=0.6.13" "mlx>=0.32" hf download orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX \ --include "4-bit/*" \ --local-dir ./Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX python -m mlx_vlm generate \ --model ./Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX/4-bit \ --prompt "Explain quantum entanglement in one sentence." \ --max-tokens 256
Vision: add --image path/to/image.png. Local OpenAI-compatible server:
python -m mlx_vlm server \ --model ./Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX/4-bit \ --port 8080
Optional MTP speculative decoding (any precision + the mtp/ drafter):
hf download orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX --include "6-bit/*" "mtp/*" \ --local-dir ./Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX python -m mlx_vlm generate \ --model ./Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX/6-bit \ --draft-model ./Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLX/mtp \ --draft-kind mtp --draft-block-size 4 \ --prompt "Explain quantum entanglement in one sentence." \ --max-tokens 256
| Build | Size | Mac memory |
|---|---|---|
| 4-bit | ~15 GB | 24 GB+ recommended |
| 6-bit | ~22 GB | 24–32 GB+ |
| 8-bit | ~27.5 GB | 32 GB+ |
| 2-bit | ~8.7 GB | archival only |
Apache-2.0, inherited from Qwen. Intended for controlled research — interpretability, refusal study, and robustness evaluation.