What are the hardware requirements for ChemFM 1B?

ChemFM 1B requires approximately 3.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 0.5K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed ChemFM 1B and how large is it?

ChemFM 1B is developed by Aurigene-AI, 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 ChemFM 1B?

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

ChemFM 1B by Aurigene-AI — VRAM 3.9GB, 0.5K context

Name: ChemFM 1B
Author: Aurigene-AI

ChemFM 1B is an open-source language model by Aurigene-AI. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 3.9GB, Context: 0.5K, License: mit.

Aurigene Chemicalfoundationmodel Chemistry Dataset:unichem Drug-discovery Endpoints compatible Foundation-model Llama Molecular-generation Molecules Region:us Safetensors Smiles Unichem

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Aurigene-AI/ChemFM-1B

ChemFM 1B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ChemFM 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Aurigene-AI/ChemFM-1B
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	3.9 GB
Updated	2026-09-13
Maintainer	Aurigene-AI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.9 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	512
Model Max Length	512
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	320
Torch Data Type	float32

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