What are the hardware requirements for Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO?

Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO requires approximately 16 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 Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO and how large is it?

Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO is developed by Hutgaecha, 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 Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO?

Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO by Hutgaecha — VRAM 16GB, 32K context

Name: Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO
Author: Hutgaecha

Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO is an open-source language model by Hutgaecha. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Base model:finetune:hutgaecha/... Base model:hutgaecha/kanana-1.... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Hutgaecha/kanana-1.5-8b-instruct-2505-Safe-DPO

Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kanana 1.5 8B Instruct 2505 Safe DPO
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Hutgaecha/kanana-1.5-8b-instruct-2505-Safe-DPO
Base Model(s)	Hutgaecha/kanana-1.5-8b-instruct-2505-Safe-DPO Hutgaecha/kanana-1.5-8b-instruct-2505-Safe-DPO
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-09-05
Maintainer	Hutgaecha
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.3 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128259
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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