What are the hardware requirements for Archaeo 12B V2?

Archaeo 12B V2 requires approximately 24.6 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 Archaeo 12B V2 and how large is it?

Archaeo 12B V2 is developed by Delta-Vector, a model with 12b 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 Archaeo 12B V2?

Archaeo 12B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Archaeo 12B V2 by Delta-Vector — VRAM 24.6GB, 128K context

Name: Archaeo 12B V2
Author: Delta-Vector

Archaeo 12B V2 is an open-source language model by Delta-Vector. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.6GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Merged Model Base model:delta-vector/franco... Base model:delta-vector/rei-v3... Conversational Creative-writing Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Roleplay Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Delta-Vector/Archaeo-12B-V2

Archaeo 12B V2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Archaeo 12B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Delta-Vector/Archaeo-12B-V2
Base Model(s)	Francois PE V2 Huali 12B Rei V3 KTO 12B Delta-Vector/Francois-PE-V2-Huali-12B Delta-Vector/Rei-V3-KTO-12B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.6 GB
Updated	2026-09-20
Maintainer	Delta-Vector
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-5 5.0 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 5.0 GB: 4-of-5 4.7 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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