What are the hardware requirements for Carbon 8B?

Carbon 8B requires approximately 16.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Carbon 8B and how large is it?

Carbon 8B is developed by HuggingFaceBio, 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 Carbon 8B?

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

Carbon 8B by HuggingFaceBio — VRAM 16.5GB, 32K context

Name: Carbon 8B
Author: HuggingFaceBio

Carbon 8B is an open-source language model by HuggingFaceBio. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Dna Endpoints compatible Genomic Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-8B

Carbon 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Carbon 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-06
Maintainer	HuggingFaceBio
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.5 GB: 1-of-7 2.5 GB: 2-of-7 2.5 GB: 3-of-7 2.4 GB: 4-of-7 2.5 GB: 5-of-7 2.5 GB: 6-of-7 1.6 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	HybridDNATokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	155776
Errors	replace

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