Instructions to use pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit 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("pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit")

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)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings
LM Studio

How to use pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit with Pi:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit"

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "mlx-lm": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Hermes Agent new

How to use pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit with Hermes Agent:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit"

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit

Run Hermes

hermes

OpenClaw new

How to use pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit with OpenClaw:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit"

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit" \
  --custom-provider-id mlx-lm \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

MLX LM

How to use pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit with MLX LM:

Generate or start a chat session

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Interactive chat REPL
mlx_lm.chat --model "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit"

Run an OpenAI-compatible server

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start the server
mlx_lm.server --model "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit"
# Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "model": "pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit",
     "messages": [
       {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
     ]
   }'

GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit

MLX (Apple Silicon) conversion of zai-org/GLM-5.2 — a glm_moe_dsa MoE (256 experts, DeepSeek-V3.2-style sparse attention) — quantized to mixed.

Quantizations

Part of the GLM-5.2 MLX collection.

Variant	Notes
8-bit	8-bit · ~800GB · needs ~1TB RAM · integrity-checked
6-bit	6-bit · ~625GB · needs ~768GB RAM · integrity-checked
5-bit	5-bit · ~530GB · needs ~640GB RAM · integrity-checked
4-bit	4-bit · ~430GB · tight on 512GB · smoke-tested
mixed (this repo)	mixed · experts@3-bit / non-expert@6-bit · ~360GB · 512GB-fit · smoke-tested

Use with mlx-lm

pip install mlx-lm
python -m mlx_lm generate --model pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit --prompt "Hello" -m 256

Validation

Smoke-tested locally (loads + generates coherent text).

License

MIT (inherited from base). Quantization config (excerpt): {"group_size": 64, "bits": 6, "mode": "affine", "model.embed_tokens": {"group_size": 64, "bits": 6}, "model.layers.0.self_attn.q_a_proj": {"group_size": 64, "bits": 6}, "model.layers.0.self_attn.q_b_p.

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Safetensors

Model size

743B params

Tensor type

BF16

U32

F32

MLX

Hardware compatibility

6-bit

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