What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 2 1B?

Llama 3 2 1B requires approximately 2.5 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 Llama 3 2 1B and how large is it?

Llama 3 2 1B is developed by AnteriorAI, a model with 1b 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 Llama 3 2 1B?

Llama 3 2 1B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 2 1B by AnteriorAI — VRAM 2.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3 2 1B
Author: AnteriorAI

Llama 3 2 1B is an open-source language model by AnteriorAI. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2204.05149 Arxiv:2405.16406 Facebook Llama Llama-3 Meta Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/AnteriorAI/llama-3-2-1b

Llama 3 2 1B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3 2 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/AnteriorAI/llama-3-2-1b
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.5 GB
Updated	2025-03-21
Maintainer	AnteriorAI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.5 GB
Supported Languages	en de fr it pt hi es th
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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