A single line to try out mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-8bit on MacOS with mlx

prompt.py

import argparse
from mlx_lm import load, generate

# Parse CLI arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--prompt", type=str, default="hello", help="Custom prompt text")
parser.add_argument("--max-tokens", type=int, default=1024, help="Maximum number of tokens to generate")
args = parser.parse_args()

# Load model
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-8bit")

prompt = args.prompt

# If the tokenizer supports chat templates, wrap input
if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages, add_generation_prompt=True
    )

# Generate response
response = generate(
    model,
    tokenizer,
    prompt=prompt,
    verbose=True,
    max_tokens=args.max_tokens
)