INFORUNTIME UPDATE·2026-10-20
mlx-lm 0.32 adds Muse Spark Open NVFP4; MLX 0.32.4 trims pre-M5 SDPA D512 memory
▼ WHAT HAPPENED
ml-explore shipped three mlx-lm releases and one MLX release between October 14 and 16, 2026.
mlx-lm 0.32.0 (Oct 15) adds `meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-NVFP4` (#1976). Going by the name, the model has 816B total and 42B active parameters. The release notes do not state parameter counts or a memory requirement. The same release adds a global scale for NVFP4-quantized MoEs (#1844) and `prism_hadamard_qwen35`, a Hadamard-rotated 2-bit Qwen3.5 (#1941). It also adds support for unconverted models (#1962), fixes a long-generation crash with MiniMax M3 (#1958) and adds a tool-call parser for MiniCPM5 (#1899).
mlx-lm 0.32.1 (Oct 15) has one change: it fixes the Muse template (#1977). mlx-lm 0.32.2 (Oct 16) fixes attention value scaling in MiMo-V2-Flash (#1971), fixes a mask in SMM (#1979) and updates the Muse Spark Hugging Face names (#1981).
MLX 0.32.4 (Oct 14) improves Metal memory use for SDPA D512 on pre-M5 chips (#4518). The notes do not define D512; it most likely means an attention head dimension of 512. The release also tunes M1 quantized-matmul dispatch for six-row large shapes (#4629), adds Python 3.15 and 3.15t support (#4555) and fixes cooperative-tensor build issues on Mac OS 27 (#4594). For the CUDA backend it adds `fp_gather_qmv` to optimize `gather_qmm` (#4508) and adds `gather_qmm_rhs_sm80` (#4554).
▼ OPERATOR ANGLE
If you plan to try Muse Spark Open, use mlx-lm 0.32.2 or later, since the template fix and the name update landed after 0.32.0. Do not assume the checkpoint fits on a Mac. The release states no memory requirement, so check the model card and file sizes before you download. If you run MiniMax M3 or MiMo-V2-Flash and hit problems, retest after upgrading. On a pre-M5 Mac, update MLX to 0.32.4 and compare memory use on your own models. The change covers SDPA D512 only, so measure before and after; we have not benchmarked it. Keep your previous versions pinned until your own checks pass.
▼ ENTITIES REFERENCED
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