---
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: transformers
base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
base_model_relation: adapter
tags:
  - mixture-of-experts
  - moe
  - ternary
  - quantized
  - qwen2.5
  - outlier
  - local-llm
  - on-device
  - edge-ai
  - energy-efficient
  - sparse
  - overlay
  - research
  - apple-silicon
  - mac
  - mmlu-verified
language:
  - en
  - zh
  - fr
  - es
  - pt
  - de
  - it
  - ru
  - ja
  - ko
  - ar
  - vi
  - th
  - nl
  - pl
datasets: []
widget:
- example_title: Widget math
  messages:
  - role: user
    content: "If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? Show reasoning step by step."
- example_title: Logic grid
  messages:
  - role: user
    content: "Alice, Bob, and Carol each own a different pet (dog, cat, parrot). Alice does not own the dog. Bob owns the parrot. Who owns what?"
- example_title: Word problem
  messages:
  - role: user
    content: "A train leaves station A at 60 mph and another leaves station B, 180 miles away, at 40 mph traveling toward each other. When do they meet?"
model-index:
  - name: Outlier-40B
    results:
      - task:
          type: text-generation
        dataset:
          name: MMLU
          type: cais/mmlu
        metrics:
          - type: accuracy
            value: 77.8
            name: MMLU 5-shot
---
> **Superseded.** This repo is a research artifact from an earlier Outlier lineage and is no longer the recommended download. The current shipping tier is at **[outlier.host](https://outlier.host/?utm_source=hf&utm_medium=modelcard&utm_campaign=outlier_40b)**.

# Outlier-40B

This repo predates the v1.8 Outlier lineup. It is preserved here for reproducibility and historical reference, not as a production recommendation.

## What replaced it

Current shipping tiers (see Outlier app v1.8+):

- [Outlier Nano 4B — current entry tier](https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/Outlier-Nano-4B-MLX-4bit)
- [Outlier Core 27B — current default tier](https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/Outlier-Core-27B-MLX-4bit)
- [Outlier Vision 35B-A3B — current multimodal tier](https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/Outlier-Vision-35B-A3B-MLX-4bit)
- [DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B — popular reasoning model](https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-MLX-4bit)
- [Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B — popular coding model](https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-4bit)

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## Original notes

This was a research / preview artifact. It may contain experimental adapters, overlays, or quantization variants that did not graduate into the shipping product. Treat any technical claims in earlier revisions of this card as provisional.

## License

See YAML frontmatter above. Original license terms preserved.