What are the hardware requirements for AquilaChat2 7B 16K?

AquilaChat2 7B 16K requires approximately 29.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed AquilaChat2 7B 16K and how large is it?

AquilaChat2 7B 16K is developed by BAAI, a model with 7b 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 AquilaChat2 7B 16K?

AquilaChat2 7B 16K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

AquilaChat2 7B 16K by BAAI — VRAM 29.2GB, 16K context

Name: AquilaChat2 7B 16K
Author: BAAI

AquilaChat2 7B 16K is an open-source language model by BAAI. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 29.2GB, Context: 16K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Aquila Custom code Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AquilaChat2-7B-16K

AquilaChat2 7B 16K Parameters and Internals

Model Type

chat, language model

Supported Languages

English (Fluent), Chinese (Fluent)

LLM Name	AquilaChat2 7B 16K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AquilaChat2-7B-16K
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	29.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-11
Maintainer	BAAI
Model Type	aquila
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 10.0 GB: 2-of-3 9.3 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	AquilaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.31.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	100008
Torch Data Type	float16

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Best Alternatives to AquilaChat2 7B 16K

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Aquila2 7B	8K / 30.8 GB	211	6
AquilaChat2 7B	2K / 29.2 GB	833	18
Aquilachat 7B	2K / 14.5 GB	31	17
Aquila 7B	2K / 14.5 GB	12	11
Tiny Random Aquilachat	0.1K / 0 GB	325	0
Tiny Random Aquila2	0.1K / 0 GB	71	0
Aquila 2 7B Chat AWQ	2K / 5 GB	5	0

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