What are the hardware requirements for Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos?

Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos requires approximately 18.6 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 Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos and how large is it?

Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos is developed by EpistemeAI, a model with 9b 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 Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos?

Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos by EpistemeAI — VRAM 18.6GB, 8K context

Name: Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos
Author: EpistemeAI

Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos is an open-source language model by EpistemeAI. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 18.6GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

4bit Base model:finetune:unsloth/ge... Base model:unsloth/gemma-2-9b-... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Gemma2 Pytorch Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/EpistemeAI/Athena-gemma-2-9b-it-Philos

Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation-inference, transformers

Additional Notes

This gemma2 model was trained 2x faster with Unsloth and Huggingface's TRL library.

LLM Name	Athena Gemma 2 9B It Philos
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/EpistemeAI/Athena-gemma-2-9b-it-Philos
Base Model(s)	Gemma 2 9B It Bnb 4bit unsloth/gemma-2-9b-it-bnb-4bit
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	18.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	EpistemeAI
Model Type	gemma2
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 3.7 GB: 4-of-4 4.9 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 3.7 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Gemma2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	float16

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