What are the hardware requirements for Cthulhu 8B V1.4?

Cthulhu 8B V1.4 requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1048K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Cthulhu 8B V1.4 and how large is it?

Cthulhu 8B V1.4 is developed by EldritchLabs, 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 Cthulhu 8B V1.4?

Cthulhu 8B V1.4 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Cthulhu 8B V1.4 by EldritchLabs — VRAM 16.1GB, 1048K context

Name: Cthulhu 8B V1.4
Author: EldritchLabs

Cthulhu 8B V1.4 is an open-source language model by EldritchLabs. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 1048K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Base model:finetune:sicariussi... Base model:sicariussicariistuf... Conversational Creative writing Cthulhu Dataset:eldritchlabs/cthulhu v... En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Goetia Horror Instruct Llama Lovecraft Pmpf Qliphoth Region:us Rp Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/EldritchLabs/Cthulhu-8B-v1.4

Cthulhu 8B V1.4 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Cthulhu 8B V1.4
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/EldritchLabs/Cthulhu-8B-v1.4
Base Model(s)	SicariusSicariiStuff/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-8B-UltraLong-1M-Instruct_Abliterated SicariusSicariiStuff/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-8B-UltraLong-1M-Instruct_Abliterated
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	EldritchLabs
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
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	1073152
Model Max Length	1073152
Transformers Version	4.56.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	129024

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