Model reference · open weights
title is an open-weight language model from desert-ant-labs. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | desert-ant-labs |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Text gen |
| Parameters (lead) | 352M |
| Context | 32k tokens |
| Runs with | mlx |
| Released | 2026-08-09 |
| Popularity | 974 downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
Suggest a title and description for any text.
On-device titles and descriptions: a short factual title and a one- to two-sentence description for any passage of text.
| Platforms | iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS |
| Weights | v0.1.0 |
Swift (requirements)
.package(url: "https://github.com/Desert-Ant-Labs/desert-ant-core.git", from: "3.1.0",
traits: ["MLX"])
Then add the Title product to your target. The MLX trait is required: without it the module compiles as a stub.
Get a title and a one or two sentence description for any passage of text, on device.
Fine-tuned on transcript clips, but it works on any prose. The register is deliberately plain, with no emoji, no hashtags and no clickbait, and a description is meant to identify this passage rather than its topic.
An MLX model directory. Load the folder, not a single file.
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
model.safetensors | 6-bit quantized weights |
model.safetensors.index.json | shard index; present even for one shard, because the loader reads it |
config.json | architecture and quantization config |
generation_config.json | decode defaults |
tokenizer.json, tokenizer_config.json | byte-level BPE with merges |
chat_template.jinja | the chat template the fine-tune was trained against |
The chat template is not incidental. A different template is a different task to this model.
The model was fine-tuned against one specific instruction, and a paraphrase is a different
task to it. It lives in Titles.prompt in the SDK; use that wording. The reply is two labelled
lines:
TITLE:
DESC:
Parse tolerantly. A card model that drifts off format should degrade to a usable title rather than throw.
MLX runs on Apple silicon and nowhere else, so there is no Android, Linux or Windows artifact here and no manifest promising one. A Core ML export exists in the training repository and is kept as evidence rather than as a candidate: on short autoregressive decode the Neural Engine is bandwidth-bound, and the Core ML arm lost on first token, throughput, load time and resident memory.
Internal testing, and less settled than that phrase usually implies. This card carries no quality figures: no independent review has been completed, and a known open issue is that the model sometimes opens a description with a stock phrase its own instruction forbids. Treat the output as needing a read before it reaches a user.
ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m ,
the base model this is fine-tuned from.Desert Ant Labs Source-Available License. Free for most apps, and a commercial license is required at scale. Full terms are at the link. Licensing: .
@software{title_2026,
title = {Title: On-device titles and descriptions: a short factual title and a one- to two-sentence description for any passage of text},
author = {Desert Ant Labs},
year = {2026},
url = {https://huggingface.co/desert-ant-labs/title},
}
© 2026 Desert Ant Labs ·
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys title for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (title below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"title","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.