What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking?

Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking requires approximately 17.6 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 Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking and how large is it?

Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking is developed by DavidAU, 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 Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking?

Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking by DavidAU — VRAM 17.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking
Author: DavidAU

Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking is an open-source language model by DavidAU. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Arxiv:0000.00000 Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Endpoints compatible Finetuned Granite Granite-4.1 Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Thinking Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/granite-4.1-8b-Brainstone-Thinking

Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 8B Brainstone Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/granite-4.1-8b-Brainstone-Thinking
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-05-11
Maintainer	DavidAU
Model Type	granite
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.8 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Granite 4.1 8B	128K / 17.6 GB	21803	161
Granite 4.2 8B	128K / 17.6 GB	1628	30
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	138888	168
Granite 4.1 8B Base	128K / 16.8 GB	11348	25
Granite Guardian 4.1 8B	128K / 16.8 GB	35637	33
Granite 4.2 8B Heretic	128K / 17.6 GB	359	1
Granite 3.1 8B Reasoning	128K / 16.4 GB	5	1
Granite 4.2 8B Symbolic Cot	128K / 17.6 GB	228	2
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	185	1
Granite 3.2 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	3792	92

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than DavidAU/granite-4.1-8b-Brainstone-Thinking.