What are the hardware requirements for Aura 4B?

Aura 4B requires approximately 9 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 Aura 4B and how large is it?

Aura 4B is developed by AuraIndustries, a model with 4b 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 Aura 4B?

Aura 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Aura 4B by AuraIndustries — VRAM 9GB, 128K context

Name: Aura 4B
Author: AuraIndustries

Aura 4B is an open-source language model by AuraIndustries. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 9GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Base model:finetune:interviten... Base model:intervitensinc/llam... Dataset:anthracite-core/full-o... Dataset:fourohfour/instruct ph... Dataset:fourohfour/rp phase Dataset:mielikki/erebus-87k En Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/AuraIndustries/Aura-4B

Aura 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Aura 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/AuraIndustries/Aura-4B
Base Model(s)	IntervitensInc/Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Width-Base-chatml IntervitensInc/Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Width-Base-chatml
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	9 GB
Updated	2026-08-23
Maintainer	AuraIndustries
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.0 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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