diff --git a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/utils_mflux.py b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/utils_mflux.py
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+from mflux.config.model_config import ModelConfig
+from mflux.models.flux.variants.txt2img.flux import Flux1
+
+from exo.shared.types.worker.instances import BoundInstance
+from exo.worker.download.download_utils import build_model_path
+
+
+def initialize_mflux(bound_instance: BoundInstance) -> Flux1:
+    model_id = bound_instance.bound_shard.model_meta.model_id
+    model_path = build_model_path(model_id)
+    model = Flux1(
+        model_config=ModelConfig.from_name(model_name=model_id, base_model=None),
+        local_path=str(model_path),
+        # quantize=8,
+    )
+
+    return model