What are the hardware requirements for Lightning 60M?

Lightning 60M requires approximately 0.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Lightning 60M and how large is it?

Lightning 60M is developed by Aobangaming, a model with 30m 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 Lightning 60M?

Lightning 60M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Lightning 60M by Aobangaming — VRAM 0.3GB

Name: Lightning 60M
Author: Aobangaming

Lightning 60M is an open-source language model by Aobangaming. Features: 30m LLM, VRAM: 0.3GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Base model:aobangaming/lightni... Base model:finetune:aobangamin... Conversational Custom code Dataset:kmfoda/booksum En Generative Lightning Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Aobangaming/lightning-60m

Lightning 60M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Lightning 60M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Aobangaming/lightning-60m
Base Model(s)	Lightning 30M Ft Aobangaming/lightning-30m-ft
Model Size	30m
Required VRAM	0.3 GB
Updated	2026-10-21
Maintainer	Aobangaming
Model Type	lightning
Model Files	0.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LightningForCausalLM
License	mit
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Vocabulary Size	65830

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Lightning 60M

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Luna 2 70M	0K / 0.3 GB	555	1
Lightning 105M	0K / 0.4 GB	337	3
Lightning 30M Ft	0K / 0.1 GB	226	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Aobangaming/lightning-60m.