What are the hardware requirements for Nova 1.1 0.8B?

Nova 1.1 0.8B requires approximately 2.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nova 1.1 0.8B and how large is it?

Nova 1.1 0.8B is developed by HardcoreAI, a model with 0.8b 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 Nova 1.1 0.8B?

Nova 1.1 0.8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nova 1.1 0.8B by HardcoreAI — VRAM 2.2GB

Name: Nova 1.1 0.8B
Author: HardcoreAI

Nova 1.1 0.8B is an open-source language model by HardcoreAI. Features: 0.8b LLM, VRAM: 2.2GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Agent Assistant Base model:finetune:hardcoreai... Base model:hardcoreai/nova-1-0... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Function-calling Hyperai Image-text-to-text Instruct Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 Region:us Ru Safetensors Tool-use

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HardcoreAI/Nova-1.1-0.8B

Nova 1.1 0.8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nova 1.1 0.8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HardcoreAI/Nova-1.1-0.8B
Model Name	HyperAiCorp/Nova-1.1-0.8B
Base Model(s)	HyperAiCorp/Nova-1-0.8B HyperAiCorp/Nova-1-0.8B
Model Size	0.8b
Required VRAM	2.2 GB
Updated	2026-10-22
Maintainer	HardcoreAI
Model Type	qwen3_5
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.2 GB
Supported Languages	en ru
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.5.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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