What are the hardware requirements for Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge?

Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge requires approximately 72.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 512K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge and how large is it?

Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge is developed by Downtown-Case, a model with 36b 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 Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge?

Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge by Downtown-Case — VRAM 72.1GB, 512K context

Name: Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge
Author: Downtown-Case

Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge is an open-source language model by Downtown-Case. Features: 36b LLM, VRAM: 72.1GB, Context: 512K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Merged Model Base model:bytedance-seed/seed... Base model:bytedance-seed/seed... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Region:us Safetensors Seed oss Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Downtown-Case/Seed-OSS-36B-Base-Instruct-Karcher-Merge

Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Seed OSS 36B Base Instruct Karcher Merge
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Downtown-Case/Seed-OSS-36B-Base-Instruct-Karcher-Merge
Base Model(s)	Seed OSS 36B Instruct Seed OSS 36B Base ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Base
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	36b
Required VRAM	72.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-16
Maintainer	Downtown-Case
Model Type	seed_oss
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-15 4.8 GB: 2-of-15 4.9 GB: 3-of-15 4.8 GB: 4-of-15 4.9 GB: 5-of-15 4.8 GB: 6-of-15 4.9 GB: 7-of-15 4.8 GB: 8-of-15 4.9 GB: 9-of-15 4.8 GB: 10-of-15 4.9 GB: 11-of-15 4.8 GB: 12-of-15 4.9 GB: 13-of-15 4.8 GB: 14-of-15 4.3 GB: 15-of-15
Model Architecture	SeedOssForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	524288
Model Max Length	524288
Transformers Version	4.56.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<seed:pad>
Vocabulary Size	155121
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Seed OSS 36B Instruct	512K / 72.2 GB	45727	505
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Seed OSS 36B Instruct 4bit	512K / 20.2 GB	60	3
Seed Oss 36B Instruct Fp16 Mlx	512K / 72.2 GB	27	2
Seed OSS 36B Instruct AWQ	512K / 21.1 GB	320	8
...eed OSS 36B Instruct GPTQ Int4	512K / 21.1 GB	21	5

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