What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter?

Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter requires approximately 26 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter and how large is it?

Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter is developed by Blackroot, a model with 13b 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 Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter?

Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter by Blackroot — VRAM 26GB, 4K context

Name: Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter
Author: Blackroot

Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter is an open-source language model by Blackroot. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26GB, Context: 4K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.08.

Autotrain compatible En Endpoints compatible Llama Llama2 Meta Not-for-all-audiences Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Stories Storytelling Storywriting Tensorflow Writing

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Blackroot/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b-Storywriter

Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nous Hermes Llama2 13B Storywriter
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Blackroot/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b-Storywriter
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	Blackroot
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.2 GB: 3-of-3 9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.2 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.32.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32032
Torch Data Type	float16

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