# mlx-community/bge-m3-mlx-8bit

Model from Hugging Face for feature extraction: mlx-community/bge-m3-mlx-8bit · mlx

## Facts

- Type: Embedding
- Task: feature-extraction
- Framework: mlx
- License: mit — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/bge-m3-mlx-8bit
- Hosting: hosted (8 files)
- Files: 8 hosted of 11 listed
- File counts: "listed" is every file in the source repository; only hosted files download from Hugging Bay, and the download plan lists the files it selects for one download, so its count can differ.
- Hosted here: 8 files, 620.7 MB
- Full repo upstream: 620.8 MB
- Recommended file: 603.6 MB · model.safetensors
- Download: https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-mlx-community-bge-m3-mlx-8bit/files (download plan: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-mlx-community-bge-m3-mlx-8bit/download-plan)
- Per-file SHA-256: available for 8 of 8 hosted files via https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-mlx-community-bge-m3-mlx-8bit/files?limit=100
- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 1039
- Stars: 1
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for mlx-community/bge-m3-mlx-8bit. Task: feature extraction. Library: mlx. Languages: multilingual, en, zh, de, es, fr, it, ja. Base model: BAAI/bge-m3. Popularity signal at import: 2,296 downloads and 1 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: mit
- Pipeline: feature-extraction
- Library: mlx
- Base model: BAAI/bge-m3
- Task categories: feature-extraction
- Languages: multilingual, en, zh, de, es, fr, it, ja
- Paper ids: 2402.03216
- File hints: 11 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2402.03216

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- README.md (2.6 KB)
- config.json (814 B)
- config_sentence_transformers.json (123 B)
- model.safetensors (576 MB) LFS
- model.safetensors.index.json (50 KB)
- modules.json (349 B)
- sentence_bert_config.json (54 B)
- special_tokens_map.json (964 B)
- tokenizer.json (16 MB) LFS
- tokenizer_config.json (379 B)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-08-29T07:43:21.997Z.
- Open license detected as mit.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

## Actions

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