What are the hardware requirements for Kisoku 1.6B Chat?

Kisoku 1.6B Chat requires approximately 3.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kisoku 1.6B Chat and how large is it?

Kisoku 1.6B Chat is developed by 0arch-io, a model with 1.6b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Kisoku 1.6B Chat?

Kisoku 1.6B Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kisoku 1.6B Chat by 0arch-io — VRAM 3.2GB, 128K context

Name: Kisoku 1.6B Chat
Author: 0arch-io

Kisoku 1.6B Chat is an open-source language model by 0arch-io. Features: 1.6b LLM, VRAM: 3.2GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Base model:0arch-io/kisoku-1.6... Base model:finetune:0arch-io/k... Chat Conversational Dataset:huggingfaceh4/no robot... Dataset:huggingfacetb/smoltalk... Dataset:nousresearch/hermes-3-... Dataset:open-thoughts/openthou... Dataset:teknium/openhermes-2.5 En Endpoints compatible Kisoku Preview Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/0arch-io/kisoku-1.6b-chat

Kisoku 1.6B Chat Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kisoku 1.6B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/0arch-io/kisoku-1.6b-chat
Base Model(s)	0arch-io/kisoku-1.6b 0arch-io/kisoku-1.6b
Model Size	1.6b
Required VRAM	3.2 GB
Updated	2026-10-25
Maintainer	0arch-io
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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Kisoku 1.6B	128K / 3.2 GB	43	0
Kisoku 1.6B Preview	4K / 3.2 GB	46	0

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