What are the hardware requirements for Ouro 2.6B Thinking?

Ouro 2.6B Thinking requires approximately 5.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ouro 2.6B Thinking and how large is it?

Ouro 2.6B Thinking is developed by ByteDance, a model with 2.6b 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 Ouro 2.6B Thinking?

Ouro 2.6B Thinking is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ouro 2.6B Thinking by ByteDance — VRAM 5.3GB, 64K context

Name: Ouro 2.6B Thinking
Author: ByteDance

Ouro 2.6B Thinking is an open-source language model by ByteDance. Features: 2.6b LLM, VRAM: 5.3GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Arxiv:2510.25741 Chain-of-thought Conversational Custom code Looped-language-model Ouro Reasoning Recurrent-depth Region:us Safetensors Thinking

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/Ouro-2.6B-Thinking

Ouro 2.6B Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ouro 2.6B Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/Ouro-2.6B-Thinking
Model Size	2.6b
Required VRAM	5.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	ByteDance
Model Type	ouro
Model Files	5.3 GB
Model Architecture	OuroForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.55.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Ouro 2.6B Thinking

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Ouro 2.6B Thinking 4bit	4	53	1 GB

Best Alternatives to Ouro 2.6B Thinking

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Ouro 2.6B	64K / 5.3 GB	4416	90
Ouro 2.6B Thinking 4bit	64K / 1.5 GB	53	4