What are the hardware requirements for HelpingAI2.5 5B?

HelpingAI2.5 5B requires approximately 10.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed HelpingAI2.5 5B and how large is it?

HelpingAI2.5 5B is developed by HelpingAI, a model with 5b 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 HelpingAI2.5 5B?

HelpingAI2.5 5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

HelpingAI2.5 5B by HelpingAI — VRAM 10.3GB, 128K context

Name: HelpingAI2.5 5B
Author: HelpingAI

HelpingAI2.5 5B is an open-source language model by HelpingAI. Features: 5b LLM, VRAM: 10.3GB, Context: 128K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Conversational Emotionally-intelligent En Endpoints compatible Eq-focused Gguf Helpingai Llama Q4 Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Slm Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/HelpingAI2.5-5B

HelpingAI2.5 5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	HelpingAI2.5 5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/HelpingAI2.5-5B
Model Size	5b
Required VRAM	10.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	HelpingAI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 0.3 GB: 3-of-3 3.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q4\|q4_k
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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