What are the hardware requirements for L3 Luna 8B?

L3 Luna 8B requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed L3 Luna 8B and how large is it?

L3 Luna 8B is developed by Casual-Autopsy, 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 L3 Luna 8B?

L3 Luna 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

L3 Luna 8B by Casual-Autopsy — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: L3 Luna 8B
Author: Casual-Autopsy

L3 Luna 8B is an open-source language model by Casual-Autopsy. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Base model:ayush-1722/meta-lla... Base model:chaoticneutrals/dom... Base model:fpham/l3-8b-everyth... Base model:nothingiisreal/l3-8... Base model:oevortex/emotional-... Base model:orenguteng/llama-3-... Base model:sao10k/l3-8b-lunari... Base model:sao10k/l3-8b-niitam... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Casual-Autopsy/L3-Luna-8B

L3 Luna 8B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

This model was created using mergekit with the TIES merge method. The following models were merged: - FPHam/L3-8B-Everything-COT - ChaoticNeutrals/Domain-Fusion-L3-8B - Ayush-1722/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Summarize-v0.2-24K-LoRANET-Merged - Sao10K/L3-8B-Niitama-v1 - nothingiisreal/L3-8B-Celeste-V1.2 - Orenguteng/Llama-3-8B-Lexi-Uncensored - OEvortex/Emotional-llama-8B

LLM Name	L3 Luna 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Casual-Autopsy/L3-Luna-8B
Base Model(s)	L3 8B Everything COT Domain Fusion L3 8B Ayush-1722/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Summarize-v0.2-24K-LoRANET-Merged L3 8B Niitama V1 nothingiisreal/L3-8B-Celeste-V1.2 Llama 3 8B Lexi Uncensored Emotional Llama 8B L3 8B Lunaris V1 FPHam/L3-8B-Everything-COT ChaoticNeutrals/Domain-Fusion-L3-8B Ayush-1722/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Summarize-v0.2-24K-LoRANET-Merged Sao10K/L3-8B-Niitama-v1 nothingiisreal/L3-8B-Celeste-V1.2 Orenguteng/Llama-3-8B-Lexi-Uncensored OEvortex/Emotional-llama-8B Sao10K/L3-8B-Lunaris-v1
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-25
Maintainer	Casual-Autopsy
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	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.44.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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