What are the hardware requirements for K2 Horizon 0.9B?

K2 Horizon 0.9B requires approximately 2.2 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 K2 Horizon 0.9B and how large is it?

K2 Horizon 0.9B is developed by IFM, a model with 0.9b 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 K2 Horizon 0.9B?

K2 Horizon 0.9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

K2 Horizon 0.9B by IFM — VRAM 2.2GB, 128K context

Name: K2 Horizon 0.9B
Author: IFM

K2 Horizon 0.9B is an open-source language model by IFM. Features: 0.9b LLM, VRAM: 2.2GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

0.9b Conversational Custom code Dense En Ifm K2-horizon K2 horizon Knowledge-distillation Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-0.9B

K2 Horizon 0.9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	K2 Horizon 0.9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-0.9B
Model Name	K2-Horizon-0.9B
Model Size	0.9b
Required VRAM	2.2 GB
Updated	2026-09-04
Maintainer	IFM
Model Type	k2_horizon
Model Files	2.2 GB: 0-of-1
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	K2HorizonForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	reserved_special_token_205
Vocabulary Size	64256

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Best Alternatives to K2 Horizon 0.9B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
K2 Type 0.9B	128K / 2.2 GB	1335	26
K2 Horizon 0.9B Heretic	128K / 4.3 GB	166	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than IFM/K2-Horizon-0.9B.