How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-lm # Generate text with mlx-lm from mlx_lm import load, generate model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct") prompt = "Write a story about Einstein" messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True ) text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with MLX LM:
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Interactive chat REPL mlx_lm.chat --model "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Start the server mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct" # Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"} ] }'
https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct/resolve/main/tokenizer.json
hf download hf://mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct/tokenizer.json
curl -L -o tokenizer.json https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct/resolve/main/tokenizer.json
