Mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit
Published on: 2025-06-11 07:33:32
mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit (via) OLMo 2 32B claims to be "the first fully-open model (all data, code, weights, and details are freely available) to outperform GPT3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini". Thanks to the MLX project here's a recipe that worked for me to run it on my Mac, via my llm-mlx plugin.
To install the model:
llm install llm-mlx llm mlx download-model mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit
That downloads 17GB to ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--mlx-community--OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit .
To start an interactive chat with OLMo 2:
llm chat -m mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit
Or to run a prompt:
llm -m mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit 'Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' -o unlimited 1
The -o unlimited 1 removes the cap on the number of output tokens - the default for llm-mlx is 1024 which isn't enough to attempt to draw a pelican.
The pelican it drew is refreshingly abstract:
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