What are the hardware requirements for HelpingAI2 6B?

HelpingAI2 6B requires approximately 11.7 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 HelpingAI2 6B and how large is it?

HelpingAI2 6B is developed by HelpingAI, a model with 6b 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 HelpingAI2 6B?

HelpingAI2 6B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

HelpingAI2 6B by HelpingAI — VRAM 11.7GB, 8K context

Name: HelpingAI2 6B
Author: HelpingAI

HelpingAI2 6B is an open-source language model by HelpingAI. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 11.7GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/HelpingAI2-6B

HelpingAI2 6B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	HelpingAI2 6B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/HelpingAI2-6B
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	11.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	HelpingAI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.6 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 1.7 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	q4\|gguf\|q4_k
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.43.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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