Instructions to use janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e 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("janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e")

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 janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e with Pi:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e"

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "mlx-lm": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

MLX LM

How to use janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e with MLX LM:

Generate or start a chat session

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Interactive chat REPL
mlx_lm.chat --model "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e"

Run an OpenAI-compatible server

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start the server
mlx_lm.server --model "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e"
# Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "model": "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e",
     "messages": [
       {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
     ]
   }'

Hermes Agent

How to use janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e 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 "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e"

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 janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat

OpenClaw

How to use janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e with OpenClaw:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e"

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 "janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e" \
  --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"

Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e

An 8-bit MLX quantization of LumiOpen/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct, produced with oQ (oMLX v0.6.4) importance-matrix quantization. It is intended for high-fidelity local inference on Apple Silicon, staying close to the original model while roughly halving memory versus bf16.

A smaller 4-bit sibling is available at janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ4e.

Original model

Poro 2 8B Instruct is a Finnish/English instruction-following model built on the Llama 3.1 8B architecture through continued pretraining, SFT and DPO. It was created by AMD Silo AI, the TurkuNLP group at the University of Turku, and HPLT, and trained on the LUMI supercomputer.

All model behaviour, capabilities, evaluation results, training data, intended use and limitations are documented in the original model card. This repository only changes the weight precision and storage format — please refer to the original for everything else.

Quantization details

Base model: LumiOpen/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct
Tool: oQ / oMLX v0.6.4
Architecture: llama (8.03B params, 32 layers, 128256 vocab, 8192 context)
Precision: 8-bit affine, uniform across all linear layers
Group size: 64
Calibration: importance matrix (imatrix) enabled, oqe_code_multilingual calibration set, 128 samples at sequence length 512
Format: MLX safetensors (2 shards)
Size on disk: ~8.0 GB

Quantization parameters are recorded in config.json; calibration metadata is in oq_imatrix_report.json.

Usage

Requires mlx-lm on an Apple Silicon Mac.

pip install mlx-lm

mlx_lm.generate --model janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e \
  --prompt "Mikä on Suomen pääkaupunki?"

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("janihal/Llama-Poro-2-8B-Instruct-oQ8e")
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Kerro lyhyesti poroista."}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True)
print(generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, max_tokens=256))

The chat template is bundled in tokenizer_config.json.

License

Released under the Llama 3.3 Community License, inherited from the base model. Built with Llama.

Attribution

If you use this model, please cite the original Poro 2 work by LumiOpen / AMD Silo AI / TurkuNLP / HPLT.

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Safetensors

Model size

8B params

Tensor type

U32

BF16

MLX

Hardware compatibility

8-bit

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