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Baichuan-M2-32B is an open-weights language model from Baichuan, released August 2025. Its published size is 32.76B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo baichuan-inc/Baichuan-M2-32B @360f684: licence tag apache-2.0. 32,763,876,352 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata (dense, so active = total). Released 2025-08: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2025-08-10).

55.9±4.4#292 of 949 LLMsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Baichuan-M2-32B, out of 1132 with a score, then more from Baichuan.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
385GLM-4-Plus Z.ai56±3comparison only2024-08
386Granite 4.1 30B IBM56±1local~19GB2026-04
387Baichuan-M2-32B Baichuan56±4local~22GB2025-08
388Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral56±1api $0.11/M +local~16GB2025-06
389DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210) DeepSeek56±1local~82GB2024-12
more from Baichuan
454Baichuan-M1-14B-Instruct Baichuan54±4local~10GB2025-01
1033Baichuan2-7B-Base Baichuan30±1local~17GB2023-08
1099Baichuan-13B-Chat Baichuan20±3local~29GB2023-07

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 91% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BRIDGE clinical text, zero-shot average (87 tasks)38.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▂▂▃▄▆█▃ beats 60/97hard · avg 32%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 91%blunt · at its level

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Baichuan-M2-32B · needs ~19.9 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf bartowski/baichuan-inc_Baichuan-M2-32B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf bartowski/baichuan-inc_Baichuan-M2-32B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Baichuan-M2-32B · needs ~19.9 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/bartowski/baichuan-inc_Baichuan-M2-32B-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Baichuan-M2-32B · needs ~19.9 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/bartowski/baichuan-inc_Baichuan-M2-32B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

MLX (Mac)

  1. Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
    with uv
    uv tool install mlx-lm
    or
    pip install mlx-lm
  2. Run Baichuan-M2-32B · needs ~34.8 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/laukerry
    chat in the terminal
    mlx_lm.chat --model laukerry/Baichuan-M2-32B-mlx-8Bit
  3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
    mlx_lm.server --model laukerry/Baichuan-M2-32B-mlx-8Bit

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~65.53 GB · from huggingface.co/baichuan-inc (official)
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='baichuan-inc/Baichuan-M2-32B', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/baichuan-inc ↗

$ how the score was worked out · BRIDGE Medical Leaderboard (H… 91%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
BRIDGE Medical Leaderboard (Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's YLab)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 91%MIT
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇ 9%
weighted average= 55.9

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