This quantization strips the model's vision tower and preserves only text-to-text capabilities. For a vision capable version check
lukaskremla/Qwen3.8-27B-3bit-MLX.
You can download MTP heads separately from this collection
Qwen 3.8 27B MLX-Quants (Vision, Text-Only & MTP).
Hugging Face might render incorrect parameter counts for this model, it is a common display bug for MLX quants.
Converted to MLX format from
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B using mlx-lm version
0.31.2.