What are the hardware requirements for Bloslain 8B V0.2?

Bloslain 8B V0.2 requires approximately 16.1 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 Bloslain 8B V0.2 and how large is it?

Bloslain 8B V0.2 is developed by BlackBeenie, a model with 8b 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 Bloslain 8B V0.2?

Bloslain 8B V0.2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bloslain 8B V0.2 by BlackBeenie — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Bloslain 8B V0.2
Author: BlackBeenie

Bloslain 8B V0.2 is an open-source language model by BlackBeenie. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Merged Model Base model:blackbeenie/neos-ll... Base model:solshine/meta-llama... Base model:solshine/reflection... Blackbeenie/neos-llama-3.1-8b Instruct Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Solshine/meta-llama-3.1-8b-ins... Solshine/reflection-llama-3.1-... Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/BlackBeenie/Bloslain-8B-v0.2

Bloslain 8B V0.2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Bloslain 8B V0.2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/BlackBeenie/Bloslain-8B-v0.2
Base Model(s)	BlackBeenie/Neos-Llama-3.1-8B Solshine/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Python-Coder Solshine/reflection-llama-3.1-8B BlackBeenie/Neos-Llama-3.1-8B Solshine/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Python-Coder Solshine/reflection-llama-3.1-8B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-03-07
Maintainer	BlackBeenie
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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