diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/chat.py b/llms/mlx_lm/chat.py
index 18ae38b2..85d32d5f 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/chat.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/chat.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from .utils import load, stream_generate
 DEFAULT_TEMP = 0.0
 DEFAULT_TOP_P = 1.0
 DEFAULT_SEED = 0
-DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 100
+DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 256
 DEFAULT_MODEL = "mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit"